[asterisk-users] External MWI question for Asterisk

[Jason Crum]

Very good point Olle. Guess I'm overlooking the other potential MWI
signaling aside from SIP.

Thanks for your input!

On Feb 6, 2008 10:22 AM, Johansson Olle E <oej at edvina.net> wrote:

>
> But you have to consider that you are mixing two namespaces in
> Asterisk. SIPx is a SIP-only proxy/PBX, but Asterisk is multiprotocol.
> We have the dialplan, which is the address you call. And then device
> names, which are more "accounts". Those are separate. A notify is
> addressed to a SIP uri,
> something that we handle as an extension. We need to route it
> internally. You might want to send a SIP MWI notify to a hotel phone
> connected to a channel bank to get those irritating red lamps to
> blink... You can't think SIP only in Asterisk (even though I sometimes
> like the idea) since we've
> got a multiprotocol architecture.
>
> /O
> >
> >
> > Anyway, thanks for the reply Olle. I think if I re-design my
> > solution for the phones to register with sipXecs and not Asterisk I
> > might make some headway, so that's my next move.
> >
> > On Feb 5, 2008 1:52 AM, Johansson Olle E <oej at edvina.net> wrote:
> >
> > It is currently not possible. With the new event-driven MWI
> > notification system in 1.6, it should be possible to add code for it,
> > but it would be kind of tricky. If you send an MWI to an extension -
> > how do we know where to send it? We either need to use the existing
> > hints that connect the extensions to the device name space, or add a
> > new sort of voicemail hints that connects an extension to a
> > voicemailbox ID that we devices can subscribe to.
> >
> > /O
> >
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