[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 12:31 PM
> To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
> Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Light indicator managed by Asterisk
> 
> 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
> >>
> >>>> 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.
[Danny Nicholas] 
Sorry I only know about Polycom and not as much about that as I'd like.