[asterisk-users] hint status unavailable

[Atis Lezdins]

On 3/20/08, Steve Davies <davies147 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 20/03/2008, Johansson Olle E <oej at edvina.net> wrote:
>  >  20 mar 2008 kl. 09.32 skrev Stefan Schmidt:
>  >  > hello,
>  >  >
>  >  > i am trying to set up a asterisk server (version 1.2.26 by now) with
>  >  > realtime configuration but the user shouldnt register directly to the
>  >  > server, instead i have set up a ser registration proxy. Everything
>  >  > works
>  >  > fine so far, but i can´t use the hint feature. Its possible to
>  >  > subscribe
>  >  > to a given hint, but the status is allways unavailable and also i dont
>  >  > get a notify.
>  >  >
>  >  > Could someone help me finding a solution for this problem? I want to
>  >  > get
>  >  > notifies for hints where the user isnt registered on the asterisk
>  >  > itself.
>  >
>  >
>  > That is something we all want, but it doesn't work now unless you add
>  >  a third party software. I haven't seen anything that solves the issue,
>  >  but have
>  >  a few ideas.
>  >
>  >  The question here is how should one asterisk be able to know anything
>  >  about
>  >  devices it doesn't control? It's a pbx, not an artificial intelligence
>  >  software.
>  >
>  >  There is work going on in the development group to make it possible
>  >  to apply a message bus between Asterisk servers so that Asterisk
>  >  servers can share call states. When that is up and running and tested,
>  >  it will be part of a future Asterisk release.
>  >
>  >  So the answer in short is "not possible today", "maybe tomorrow"
>  >
>  >  Regards,
>  >  /olle
>
>
> Perhaps in a similar thread, is it possible to somehow SET the state
>  of a hint from the dialplan? Perhaps a bit like:
>     Set(${ChanIsAvail(hint,234)}=Busy)
>  or perhaps have a pseudo-device facility where you can add it to the
>  end of the hint list to "hint-the-hint". Something like:
>
>  exten => 234,hint,SIP/myphone&PSEUDO/234
>  exten => *78,1,ChanAvailIs(PSEUDO/234,Busy)
>  exten => *791,ChanAvailIs(PSEUDO/234,Unknown)
>
>  This could be very useful for presence indication.

Huh, this hint & hint would be useful for queues with local channel &
state_interface too.. i think some general usage way could be added to
allow combining of device states.

Regards,
Atis

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