[Asterisk-Users] Polycom-Asterisk hints/presence

[Damon Estep]

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> From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-
> bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Mike Fedyk
> Sent: Friday, June 02, 2006 10:16 PM
> To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
> Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Polycom-Asterisk hints/presence
> 
> How do you setup asterisk so that the assistant sees the lights but
> doesn't hear the rings?
> 

It was not intentional, but with 1.2.8 asterisk and 1.6.5 Polycom sip;

1. add a hint priority to the dialplan.
2. set the subscribe context for the subscriber
3. create a directory entry on the phone and enable buddy watch
4. assign the directory entry to a speed dial key. This can only be done
if you have not set all of the Polycom keys to register on the primary
account used for the phone. If you have a 501, and you set the first 2
for registration, the third will display "speed dial 1"

The buddy watch feature on the Polycom phone is enabled by adding the
appropriate xml tag to the config file for the phone - if you need more
info let me know.

The result I expected was that the "watched" extensions would ring, but
a sip debug in asterisk reveals that asterisk does not send a different
notify for ring and it does not send a notify when the state changes
from ringing to inuse. There is only one notify sent when the watched
extensions starts ringing, and it is a status of "inuse"

I have not been able to determine if the Polycom would ring if a status
notification of ringing was sent from asterisk.

Damon