[asterisk-users] Extending call parking to display park extension on the handset display

[Guillermo Roditi]

I am moving this thread from -dev to -users. The thread is below.

Synopisis, I am relatively new to asterisk and even though I've looked
through the docs I can not find a way to accomplish what I am trying to do.
I am trying to, upon park, send a message to a SIP phone which will display
the parking spot number instead of simply 'say'ing it.


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I indeed ran into parkandannounce, It seems to be what I want, unfortunately
I know nothing about asterisk and even though I downloaded th book I am
super lost. I am digging through docs right now, and it seems that you can
extend asterisk in all sorts of ways, so I'm thinking hacking into
features.c is probably a poor choice considering that the conf files seem to
be able to do all sorts of things.  I guess my biggest problem ATM is
figuring out if / how I can tell my SIP phones to display a custom string on
their display.

I apologize if this is too basic for this list, just let me know and I can
move the discussion to Users, I just assumed that since source code changes
are involved it may belong here. The thing is I am just a perl programmer
who can hack a little C. one of the other guys here does the phones but he
just had surgery and is out and all doped up. So its up to me to get this
ball rolling.


Guillermo Roditi

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On 7/27/06, Alexander Lopez <Alex.Lopez at opsys.com> wrote:
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You can use the SIPpeer functions to grab the IP address of the calling
phone you can do this before calling the PARK application. I would also look
at . ParkAndAnnounce.




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] *On Behalf Of *Guillermo Roditi
*Sent:* Thursday, July 27, 2006 5:23 PM
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*Subject:* [asterisk-dev] Extending call parking to display park extension
onthe handset display



Hi,

Currently our Asterisk set up will 'say' back the parking location of a
parked call. I'd like to change this behavior to instead display text on the
handset's display. My first instinct was to hack an execl() call to call
sipsak and relay the message to the phone, unfortunately, this approach
needs the IP address of the phone which doesn't seem to be accessible from
ast_park_call().

My next idea was to use the ast_sendtext function I came accross in
channels.c however that was also not fruitful.

I'd like to ask anyone here if they know how I can display a custom string
in the phone's display. I know it wont always works, but as long as it works
with our handsets i'm fine with it.
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