[Asterisk-Users] Re: HINT

[Julian J. M.]

But that only works when SIP/201 receives a call, right?

What if SIP/201 is making a dialout call, does it show as busy in the
phone's keypad?

Julian J. M.

On 5/7/05, Thorben Jensen <thorben at thorben.dk> wrote:
> > Could you please give us some more detail as to what you did, in terms of
> > configuring the hint, and specifically what changes in the behavior of the
> > running server-phone interaction as a result?
> 
> You need to set the hint for the phone when the phone is being dialed like
> this:
> 
> exten => 201,hint,SIP/201
> exten => 201,1,macro(dial-sip,201)
> 
> It's important that you write the full name of the phone "SIP/201" as you
> can't use substitutions like this SIP/${EXTEN} - it took me a long time to
> figure that out.