On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 03:49:36PM -0500, Chris Clifton wrote: > That's fine for outbound lines, but what if I want to call the guy in the > next office ? I have to call him and get redirected to his busy vm just to > know that he's on the phone. > > This is a huge issue with the recepetionist with the 'master console'. How > does he/she know whether a user is busy or not ? > > 20 year old phone systems offer this capability. > > I see this as a serious shortfall of asterisk / currently available ip > phones right now.
I'm scratching out a way of doing this using the manager port. There is a TON of info that is passed to the manager port once you are authenticated. I'd love the interface to be Java (portablilty), but it could be web based with a short refresh (say 5 seconds) from a database. Tim -- >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>><<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< >> Tim Sailer >< Coastal Internet, Inc. << >> Network and Systems Operations >< PO Box 726 << >> http://www.buoy.com >< Moriches, NY 11955 << >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >< (631) 399-2910 (888) 924-3728 << >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>><<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users