[asterisk-users] Polycom Do Not Disturb button and asterisk hints

[Kevin P. Fleming]

On 02/17/2011 12:27 PM, Mike wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Is there ANY way for me to see the status of the Polycom DND buttons in
> the Asterisk hints? I`m using the BLF buttons to see the status of other
> people`s lines, and DND should logically be somehow reflected (I don`t
> care as much about Polycom showing the BLF button as DND, but I do care
> about Asterisk hints showing it in the CLI).
>
> Right now, a Polycom phone on DND shows up as being idle. Which is it,
> but it doesn’t help reception say “Sorry he`s not available right now”.
>
> I don’t mind paying a reasonable bounty for it, or working closely with
> anyone to make this feature available, but I`ve been asked this by many
> customers in the past and it’s starting to be one of those “why the heck
> not” question.

I've not seen anyone write the code to support this yet for Asterisk; it 
would require responding to PUBLISH messages from the Polycom phone 
(which it can optionally generate for DND being enabled and disabled).

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