[Asterisk-Users] Polycom-Asterisk hints/presence

[Mike Fedyk]

How do you setup asterisk so that the assistant sees the lights but 
doesn't hear the rings?

picciuX wrote:
> damon, i think many guys here missed your point and went away from it. 
> What you want to do is possible: i managed to do that using a GXP-2000 
> with beta firmare and asterisk 1.2.0.
> GXP correctly processes the "status change messages" and show a 
> blinking led for the BLF of a ringing extension. The GXP, when you 
> press a "blinking BLF", dials out the blf extension prefixed with 
> '**'. In the dialplan i only needed to do a:
>
> exten => _**XXX,1,Pickup(${EXTEN:2})
>
> to answer the ringing remote extension.
> So, IMHO, it's only a matter of the phone. This is not a true "shared 
> line", but does its job well letting an assistant answer his boss' phone.
> AFAIK, Snoms do a similar thing, dialing out *8<BLF extension> when 
> pressing a ringing button.
>
> Hope this helps....
>
> 2006/6/2, Damon Estep <damon at suburbanbroadband.net 
> <mailto:damon at suburbanbroadband.net>>:
>
>     > >
>     >
>     >  I think there was a patch that went in recently from Mark with
>     regard
>     > to SIP devices and their state when they are ringing/in use and when
>     > they are just "in use". That may help you with what you're asking
>     > about.
>     >
>     Let's assume for a minute that there is a way to get a ringing notify,
>     and that the Polycom processes the messages and properly displays the
>     status, then;
>
>     1. A hint could be setup that monitors the sip user.
>     2. the hint could have a unique extension
>     3. the dialplan for the extension could be a call pickup sequence.
>
>     Example (without regard for correct syntax)
>
>     Exten 123,hint,SIP/345
>     Exten,123,1,(Need help here -> if sip/345 is idle then goto
>     priority 3)
>     Exten 123,2,Pickup(SIP/345 at context)
>     Exten 123,3,Dial(SIP/345)
>
>     Now, on the Polycom
>
>     1. setup a buddy with the correct display name for exten 345, but
>     with,
>     but with a contact address of 123
>     2. turn on presence monitoring (buddy watch in Polycom terms)
>
>     Do you see the value in knowing that an extensions is ringing via
>     presence?
>
>     Take it one step further, ask Polycom to implement a feature where the
>     presence status of ringing can produce an audible event instead of
>     only
>     visual events. That is, if it does not already, which I have no
>     idea on.
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