[asterisk-users] Buddy watch and the hint priority - brain teaser

[Paul Hales]

I posted a bug and also asked for Asterisk to allow for patterns in the
hints (to remove the need to key a hundred hints in one instance) and
got told that it wasn't going to happen.

Does devstate help you at all?

http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/Asterisk+func+Devstate

later,

PaulH

On Wed, 2007-08-08 at 08:56 -0400, Mike wrote:
> Apologies if this is a resend, but I've sent this 12 hours ago and
> still can't see it on the list.
> 
> 
> Hi,
>  
> I've just started to setup my phones with Buddy watch.  Basically, it
> all works fine when using the simple example on the wiki:
>  
> exten => 123,hint, SIP/some_sip_reg
> exten => 123,1,SIP/some_sip_reg
>  
> BUT, what I need to do is dynamically decide where the hint checks for
> buddy status, because I am using patterns in this context.
>  
> In other words, I need to find out the values of ${some_sip_reg}
> before the using the hint priority. Ideally, something sort of like
> this:
>  
> exten => _XXX,hint,Set(hint_reg=${EXTEN}-reg}
> exten => _XXX,hint,SIP/${hint_reg}
> exten => _XXX,SIP/${EXTEN}-reg}
>  
> Or, even easier (if it can even be done) is write a function:
> exten => _XXX,hint,SIP/ReturnCorrectRegistration()
>  
>  
> What's the best way to approach my problem?
>  
> Mike
>  
>  
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