[Asterisk-Users] Asterisk presence utility

[Greg Boehnlein]

On Sat, 18 Sep 2004, Bill Seddon wrote:

> I've spent a couple of evenings writing a "presence" utility in C# so that a
> window, listing the currently registered SIP phones, can be displayed and a
> user can see who is on the phone and who is not.  It uses the Manager API
> and works well, updating the display as API events are received.
> 
> But what I want to be able to do is add to the list of displayed users when
> a phone registers and remove them when a phone unregisters.  However the
> Manager API does not seem to generate event messages for these events.   Is
> this correct or have a I missed an option somewhere?  Certainly the register
> and unregister event is displayed on the Asterisk command line.
> 
> It is possible to have the utility run the "sip show peers" command
> periodically and update its list based on the results of the command.
> However that means polling the server periodically, comsuming resources,
> instead of being notified just once.
> 
> Any insight gratefully received.
> 
> Bill Seddon

This is purely conjecture on my part, but it seems to me if the console is 
generating SIP Un/Registration messages, that it would be trivial for the 
manager interface to display them as well.

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