[asterisk-users] Asterisk + hinting presence + macro

[Anthony Francis]

Eric "ManxPower" Wieling wrote:
> Rob Schall wrote:
>   
>> Eric "ManxPower" Wieling wrote:
>>     
>>> Rob Schall wrote:
>>>  
>>>       
>>>> I currently have about 50 polycom 501 phones on my asterisk setup. 
>>>> The dialplan is set to work with mysql (realtime), and all of the 
>>>> extensions for the phones route through the same macro (stdexten). 
>>>> This all works fine until I tried to set up notify status.
>>>>
>>>> On voip-info, they say do something like...
>>>>
>>>> 4444,hint,SIP/4444
>>>> 4444,1,Dial(SIP/4444)
>>>> blah blah blah
>>>>
>>>> This functionality works fine. But what if you have a macro
>>>> s,hint,SIP/${ARG1}
>>>> s,1,Dial(SIP/${ARG1}
>>>>
>>>> this adds a "s" hint which obviously doesn't work, instead of a hint 
>>>> for 4444 as it should.
>>>>     
>>>>         
>>> Yes.  Put in the correct hint.  There is no reason that 
>>> "4444,hint,SIP/4444" would not work in a macro.
>>>
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>> So, if I understand you correctly, my macro would look something vaguely 
>> like...
>>
>> [macro-stdexten]
>> ${ARG1},hint,SIP/${ARG1}
>> s,1,Dial(${ARG1})?
>>
>> This will work? My understand was that by going into a macro, you were 
>> going to be using the "s" extension. I'm not sure how that hint would 
>> get called if its not inside the s extension.
>>     
>
> I have no idea, but as I understand it, Hints are separate from extensions.
>
> I guess you could do something like:
>
> [macro-stdexten]
> exten => s,1,Goto(${MACRO_EXTEN},1)
>
> exten => _XXXX,hint,SIP/${ARG1}
> exten => _XXXX,1,Dial(${ARG1})
>
> I do this sort of thing in many of my macros that Dial somewhere.  I 
> seem to remember something about hints not working for pattern matching. 
> or working weirdly.
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Hints do not have to be part of the steps in a dialplan, and if you want 
devices to be listeners, they shouldn't be. Also you had stated you 
where using realtime, and the hint priority doesnt work in realtime, I 
submitted a bug about this and it was rejected as won't fix, but was 
explained as, not going to be fixed anytime soon.

At an rate make a hint context that has devices mapped to extensions,
[hint-context]
4444,hint,Sip/4444
4445,hint,Sip/4445

and the like, then add that context in sip.conf for all devices both 
monitored and listeners,
subscribecontext=hint-context

Then ast will send update notifications about these devices to watchers 
properly.

Hope this helps,

Anthony