[asterisk-users] visual indication of temp. closed mode

[Lacy Moore - Aspendora]

I may have to do something like that to be able to setup some way to
temporarily close our office.  I haven't really found anything else that
would have a visual indicator that the system is on temp. closed mode.  I
can manually set a database entry (which I already do), and I know I can add
an extension to set this, but neither of those visually alerts our
receptionist.

Right now, we still have a Cisco SCCP phone on the system.  She hits the DND
button, which the SCCP driver updates the database of this, and that's what
I check.

I know this has come up several times, but so far, I haven't really seen any
really good solutions.  My receptionist system will more than likely be a
Polycom IP601.  I'm thinking of creating an extension that would be used
only for this purpose.

Any thoughts or ideas?

Thanks!


On 8/28/06, Michiel van Baak <michiel at vanbaak.info> wrote:
On 13:12, Mon 28 Aug 06, Michael Sampson wrote:
> This is what I have so far
>
> [app-set-mwi]
> exten => *35,1,Answer
> exten => *35,n,Wait(1)
> exten => *35,n,Playback(please-enter-your&extension)
> exten => *35,n,Read(fromext,then-press-pound,,)
> exten => *35,n,Wait(1)
> exten => *35,n,system(touch
> /var/spool/asterisk/voicemail/default/${fromext}/INBOX/msg0001.txt);
> exten => *35,n,Macro(hangupcall,)
>
> ; end of [app-set-mwi]
>
> For some reason I get a busy signal when I dial *35 from an ext.
> I did some playing around and found that if I changed the heading to
> look like this
>
> [app-cf-busy-off]
> exten => *35,1,Answer
> exten => *35,n,Wait(1)
> exten => *35,n,Playback(please-enter-your&extension)
> exten => *35,n,Read(fromext,then-press-pound,,)
> exten => *35,n,Wait(1)
> exten => *35,n,system(touch
> /var/spool/asterisk/voicemail/default/${fromext}/INBOX/msg0001.txt);
> exten => *35,n,Macro(hangupcall,)
>
> ; end of [app-cf-busy-off]
>
> It works fine. I'm pretty new to editing the extensions.conf files, why
> can't I make a new app and have it work?

did you do
include => app-set-mwi
in the context where the phone is?
I guess not, so the phone wont know about *35
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