[asterisk-users] Light indicator managed by Asterisk

[Danny Nicholas]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-
> bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Jonas Kellens
> Sent: Thursday, May 12, 2011 12:21 PM
> To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
> Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Light indicator managed by Asterisk
> 
> On 05/12/2011 06:58 PM, Andrew Latham wrote:
> > On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 12:50 PM, Jonas Kellens
> > <jonas.kellens at telenet.be>  wrote:
> >
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> is there some way to make Asterisk light up a certain light on an IP-
> phone ?
> >>
> >> Like MWI, the message waiting indicator can light up if there is
> voicemail.
> >>
> >> Could this light, or even other lights (like BLF-buttons) be used to
> give a
> >> visual notification to the user ?
> >>
> >> For example : if a certain value is set in the Mysql-DB and Asterisk
> reads
> >> out this value, can Asterisk react upon it inside the dialplan to make
> a
> >> light lit up ?
> >>
> >> 2nd example : if a certain extension is called, can we perform inside
> the
> >> dialplan an action that makes a light lit up on a Snom or Yealink IP-
> phone ?
> >>
> >> I don't know if all this is at all possible, but it doesn't harm asking
> I
> >> guess...
> >>
> >> If BLF works, then maybe more things are possible in the same way. Just
> >> thinking outside the box here.
> >>
> >>
> >> Kind regards,
> >> Jonas.
> >>
> > On snom and other phones it is easy...
> >
> http://wiki.snom.com/Interoperability/PBX/Asterisk#Extension_Monitoring_.2
> 8BLF.29_.26_Call_Pick-Up
> >
> > Also look at SLA
> > http://svn.asterisk.org/svn/asterisk/trunk/configs/sla.conf.sample
> >
> 
> I know how MWI and BLF works, that's not my question. I'm talking about
> lighting up lights on the phone on other occasions, not related to MWI
> or BLF. Check the examples I gave again.
> 
> Can Asterisk (through SIP or maybe another protocol) "control" lights on
> an IP-phone like Snom, Yealink or other ?
> 
> Also : can we control SIP notify or SIP option packets inside the dialplan
> ?
> 
> 
> 
> Kind regards,
> Jonas.
[Danny Nicholas] 
<stabbing> #1 I doubt it, read your phone documentation #2 using special
contexts and addSipHeader commands, perhaps?</stabbing>