[asterisk-users] Polycom BLF

[Jeff LaCoursiere]

Struggling with an IP650 and 7 IP335s this morning.  I have the following 
hints defined (courtesy of FreePBX 2.9):

extensions_additional.conf:exten => 300,hint,SIP/300
extensions_additional.conf:exten => 301,hint,SIP/301
extensions_additional.conf:exten => 302,hint,SIP/302
extensions_additional.conf:exten => 303,hint,SIP/303
extensions_additional.conf:exten => 304,hint,SIP/304
extensions_additional.conf:exten => 305,hint,SIP/305
extensions_additional.conf:exten => 307,hint,SIP/307
extensions_additional.conf:exten => 308,hint,SIP/308
extensions_additional.conf:exten => 322,hint,SIP/322
extensions_additional.conf:exten => 350,hint,SIP/350
extensions_additional.conf:exten => 400,hint,SIP/400

The Polycoms are all pulling an XML directory via FTP where each extension 
has "<BW>" (Buddy Watch) set to 1:

 		<item>
 			<ln>Mehra</ln>
 			<fn>Ray</fn>
 			<ct>301</ct>
 			<sd>101</sd>
 			<bw>1</bw>
 		</item>

This all actually works fine, and from the reception phone (the 650) I can 
see the status of all the extensions, and if I dig into some menus on the 
335 I can see status as well.  So I would expect that "core show hints" 
would show '8' for all extensions, but it doesn't:

artha*CLI> core show hints

     -= Registered Asterisk Dial Plan Hints =-
                     300 at ext-local           : SIP/300 
State:Idle            Watchers  7
                     301 at ext-local           : SIP/301 
State:Idle            Watchers  8
                     302 at ext-local           : SIP/302 
State:Idle            Watchers  8
                     303 at ext-local           : SIP/303 
State:Idle            Watchers  8
                     304 at ext-local           : SIP/304 
State:InUse           Watchers  8
                     305 at ext-local           : SIP/305 
State:Idle            Watchers  7
                     307 at ext-local           : SIP/307 
State:Idle            Watchers  1
                     308 at ext-local           : SIP/308 
State:Idle            Watchers  7
                     350 at ext-local           : SIP/350 
State:Idle            Watchers  1
                     400 at ext-local           : SIP/400 
State:InUse           Watchers  7
----------------
- 11 hints registered


Something seems broken here.  And the 650 seems to "lose" its hint for a 
phone once in a while, and report it as unreachable, even though it can 
easily make and receive calls from it.

Am I tilting at windmills?  Is this really unstable or has someone made it 
work solidly?

Thanks!

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Jeff LaCoursiere
SunFone
340-715-7600 x222
jeff at sunfone.com