Re: [Asterisk-Users] Possible to display which extensions are in use on the phone's display?

2004-11-17 Thread Dinesh Nair
On 18/11/2004 04:17 Steven Critchfield said the following: On Wed, 2004-11-17 at 11:49 -0800, Tracy R Reed wrote: And it seems to be something the developers are not interested in supporting. Whenever someone asks about this feature they are normally told that this is a feature of small-office "key

RE: [Asterisk-Users] Possible to display which extensions are in use on the phone's display?

2004-11-17 Thread David Gomillion
> From: Steven Critchfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Wed, 2004-11-17 at 11:49 -0800, Tracy R Reed wrote: >> On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 01:13:57PM -0500, Noah Miller spake thusly: On our current phones (Iwatsu) we have a button on the phones for each extension that lights up when that >>> >>

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Possible to display which extensions are in use on the phone's display?

2004-11-17 Thread Jim Dossey
On Wed, 2004-11-17 at 16:03 -0500, Andrew Kohlsmith wrote: Perhaps a better idea is to have extension appearances (similar to a CAP module) and a number of parking slot appearances. This, IMO, is far more worthy of development work, as it scales much better. Call pickup still works from

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Possible to display which extensions are in use on the phone's display?

2004-11-17 Thread Andrew Kohlsmith
On November 17, 2004 02:49 pm, Tracy R Reed wrote: > And it seems to be something the developers are not interested in > supporting. Whenever someone asks about this feature they are normally > told that this is a feature of small-office "key" systems and that > Asterisk has its sights set on bigge

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Possible to display which extensions are in use on the phone's display?

2004-11-17 Thread Steven Critchfield
On Wed, 2004-11-17 at 11:49 -0800, Tracy R Reed wrote: > On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 01:13:57PM -0500, Noah Miller spake thusly: > > >On our current phones (Iwatsu) we have a button on the > > >phones for each extension that lights up when that > > > > This seems to be a popular request these days. M

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Possible to display which extensions are in use on the phone's display?

2004-11-17 Thread Peter Svensson
On Wed, 17 Nov 2004, Jason Becker wrote: > > On our current phones (Iwatsu) we have a button on the > > phones for each extension that lights up when that > > extension is ringing or is in a call, so I can see at > > a glance if one of my coworkers is on the phone before > > I go barging into his

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Possible to display which extensions are in use on the phone's display?

2004-11-17 Thread Tracy R Reed
On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 01:13:57PM -0500, Noah Miller spake thusly: > >On our current phones (Iwatsu) we have a button on the > >phones for each extension that lights up when that > > This seems to be a popular request these days. Most places I've seen > call this "shared lines" I thought this

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Possible to display which extensions are in use on the phone's display?

2004-11-17 Thread james
> > On our current phones (Iwatsu) we have a button on the > > phones for each extension that lights up when that > > extension is ringing or is in a call, so I can see at > > a glance if one of my coworkers is on the phone before > > I go barging into his office. Also, if I am in a > > coworker's

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Possible to display which extensions are in use on the phone's display?

2004-11-17 Thread Noah Miller
We're considering using Asterisk in our small (8 user) office.  There is one feature that we have on our current phone system that I haven't seen in the documentation that I've read that I'd like to be able to replicate with Asterisk.   On our current phones (Iwatsu) we have a button on the phones

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Possible to display which extensions are in use on the phone's display?

2004-11-17 Thread Jason Becker
Hi Richard, Richard Hansberry wrote: Hi all, We're considering using Asterisk in our small (8 user) office. There is one feature that we have on our current phone system that I haven't seen in the documentation that I've read that I'd like to be able to replicate with Asterisk. On our current

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Possible to display which extensions are in use on the phone's display?

2004-11-17 Thread Peter Osborne
We had the same with our old phone system, I replaced it be adding a little panel in our web based support system that shows extension status, call duration, etc. I used an iframe that refreshes every 5 seconds, I wrote a script in python that generates the data by watching the Asterisk Manager.

[Asterisk-Users] Possible to display which extensions are in use on the phone's display?

2004-11-17 Thread Richard Hansberry
Hi all,   We're considering using Asterisk in our small (8 user) office.  There is one feature that we have on our current phone system that I haven't seen in the documentation that I've read that I'd like to be able to replicate with Asterisk.   On our current phones (Iwatsu) we have a button on