[asterisk-users] Light indicator managed by Asterisk

[Jonas Kellens]

On 05/12/2011 07:24 PM, Danny Nicholas wrote:
>> -----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
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>>>> 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>

So if the IP-phone lets me program to react a certain way upon the 
presence of a custom SIP-header, then this could be implemented ? Humm.. 
maybe you're right.

You don't perhaps know which phone type/brand gives me that much freedom ?



Kind regards,
Jonas.