[Asterisk-Users] Able to tell if phone is registered?

[Tim Pushor]

I tried using chanavail and it didn't seem to work as I expected. I 
don't really want the user to have to do anything, other than register 
their phone, for the system to know that it should take a different action.

Thanks,
Tim


Nathan C. Smith wrote:

>Hi All,
>
>I have a new asterisk setup running at home and am very happy with it. 
>One thing that I am trying to do is to take various actions in the 
>dialplan *if* a particular phone is registered/authenticated/connected. 
>For example, if someone dials *me* and is shows that I am connected via 
>my softphone, to try it instead of my deskphone (and possibly notifiy 
>the user in advance that it is taking that action).
>
>There are a couple ways, but within the dialplan you can use chanavail().
>On the console you can type "show application appname" to get more
>information about applications such as chanavail and dial.  
>
>On the failure of a dial command the priority jumps 101, so for instance if
>you softphone was dialed at priority 3 and it failed the execution would
>jump to priority 104 where you could attempt to dial your deskphone.
>
>Finally, you can use the asterisk database.  By dialing an extension to set
>a database value and checking for a value in the dialplan you can use logic
>to decide whether to dial an extension or not.
>
>Most of this is documented reasonably well on www.voip-info.org once you
>know what you are looking for.
>
>-Nate
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