[Asterisk-Users] availability of the "ExtensionState" was "Asterisk Manager Interface notes"

[Julio Anjos]

mattf wrote:

>Hello,
>
>I was referring to the availability of the "ExtensionState" Action (see the
>wiki: http://www.voip-info.org/tiki-index.php?page=Asterisk%20manager%20API
>), even though I don't actually use it. 
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>
Ok. Has anyone used the"ExtensionState" Action sucessfully? I can't get
it to work.

>For my purposes of status of an extension I wrote an updater script, that
>runs outside of Astrisk, every second and grabs the "Action: Command
>Command: Show Channels" output and parses it into a database so that my GUI
>applications can see which extensions and zap channels are busy and what
>they are connected to. It's not the most elegant solution, but it doesn't
>drain resources and I've been using it for months so it serves it's purpose.
>
>MATT---
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>
Thanks for the tip.

Julio Anjos
Portugal