[Asterisk-Users] Simulating the "lighted line in use" type of phone

[Tim Sailer]

On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 03:49:36PM -0500, Chris Clifton wrote:
> That's fine for outbound lines, but what if I want to call the guy in the
> next office ? I have to call him and get redirected to his busy vm just to
> know that he's on the phone.
> 
> This is a huge issue with the recepetionist with the 'master console'. How
> does he/she know whether a user is busy or not ?
> 
> 20 year old phone systems offer this capability.
> 
> I see this as a serious shortfall of asterisk / currently available ip
> phones right now.

I'm scratching out a way of doing this using the manager port. There is
a TON of info that is passed to the manager port once you are authenticated.
I'd love the interface to be Java (portablilty), but it could be web based
with a short refresh (say 5 seconds) from a database.

Tim

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