RE: [Asterisk-Users] Simulating the lighted line in use type of phone

2004-02-25 Thread Florian Overkamp
Hi, -Original Message- 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

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Simulating the lighted line in use type of phone

2004-02-25 Thread John Baker
That's great, but the Polycom phones and the Cisco phones are already capable of this. We just need asterisk to comply: From the Polycom admin manual at: http://www.polycom.com/common/pw_item_show_doc/0,1276,2545,00.pdf 5.2.6 Shared Call Appearance Signaling A shared line is an address of

RE: [Asterisk-Users] Simulating the lighted line in use type of phone

2004-02-25 Thread Andrew Thompson
I looked at it, and it won't work for me the way you have written it without me hacking at it. You insist on having MySQL run in network mode. I really don't want another port/service running on a box that is internet-facing... call me silly. :) For things like this, I'll only have the

RE: [Asterisk-Users] Simulating the lighted line in use type of phone

2004-02-25 Thread mattf
It actually has components that run on the Asterisk server as well as a GUI app that runs on the desktop(Win32 or Linux). astguiclient was really designed for a larger environment than most of the Asterisk client apps that are out there, and it is not as easy to set up. It was also initially

RE: [Asterisk-Users] Simulating the lighted line in use type of phone

2004-02-25 Thread Greg Boehnlein
On Wed, 25 Feb 2004, mattf wrote: It actually has components that run on the Asterisk server as well as a GUI app that runs on the desktop(Win32 or Linux). astguiclient was really designed for a larger environment than most of the Asterisk client apps that are out there, and it is not as

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Simulating the lighted line in use type of phone

2004-02-25 Thread Tim Sailer
On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 05:46:55PM -0500, Andrew Thompson wrote: I looked at it, and it won't work for me the way you have written it without me hacking at it. You insist on having MySQL run in network mode. I really don't want another port/service running on a box that is

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Simulating the lighted line in use type of phone

2004-02-25 Thread Tim Sailer
On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 10:37:21PM -0500, Tim Sailer wrote: On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 04:33:41PM -0500, mattf wrote: Take a look at my GUI app: http://sourceforge.net/projects/astguiclient/ It'll run on Linux and Windows, it's written in perl and it'll list every

[Asterisk-Users] Simulating the lighted line in use type of phone

2004-02-24 Thread Brian Capouch
I'd like to see if anyone out there might have some ideas on this. I have a customer who wants to move to VoIP, but who has an office full of people who are very conservative about their telephones. They would like the asterisk system that I am proposing to have something analogous to what

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Simulating the lighted line in use type of phone

2004-02-24 Thread John Fraizer
I would put it in a totally different light. IE; depending on who they use as an IAX/SIP carrier, they may have potentially unlimited outbound and inbound lines with the limit only imposed by the total number of indications on the phones in the office and even then, new inbound calls can still

RE: [Asterisk-Users] Simulating the lighted line in use type of phone

2004-02-24 Thread Craig
I have a similar situation, I have an office with 4 lines that are answered in different names and wanted to give users the option to see the status of each line etc. I have some cisco vip30 with the select buttons and appropriate leds, I was going to set these up on a * box and see how

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Simulating the lighted line in use type of phone

2004-02-24 Thread Chris Clifton
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

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Simulating the lighted line in use type of phone

2004-02-24 Thread Brian Capouch
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

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Simulating the lighted line in use type of phone

2004-02-24 Thread Tim Sailer
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

RE: [Asterisk-Users] Simulating the lighted line in use type of phone

2004-02-24 Thread mattf
Take a look at my GUI app: http://sourceforge.net/projects/astguiclient/ It'll run on Linux and Windows, it's written in perl and it'll list every channel(Zap/SIP/Local) that is active on your system updated every second. You can also do a lot of other things with it too. We've been using it

RE: [Asterisk-Users] Simulating the lighted line in use type of phone

2004-02-24 Thread Christopher Lee
Just a thought on this topic, if you're using Cisco 7940/7960 IP handsets it should be possible to write a Perl script on the Asterisk box that updates the XML directory to show the current status of extensions. Then when the receptionist is on the phone, they could hit the services button,

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Simulating the lighted line in use type of phone

2004-02-24 Thread Andrew Kohlsmith
Then when the receptionist is on the phone, they could hit the services button, scroll through the list of extensions; see what the persons status is, and even transfer the call right through by pressing the Dial button underneath the extension if they hit Transfer before the Services button.

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Simulating the lighted line in use type of phone

2004-02-24 Thread Philipp von Klitzing
Hi! I am positive I saw add-on modules for Cisco phones to show line/extension status, though. It appears that for the SNOM 220 there is a 20 key extension pad, and you can use up to 3 of those per phone -- maximum of 60 lines to monitor? Cheers, Philipp

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Simulating the lighted line in use type of phone

2004-02-24 Thread TC
I am positive I saw add-on modules for Cisco phones to show line/extension status, though. Your did http://cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/phones/ps379/products_data_sheet09186a008 008883d.html alas no one has done any integration work with * yet ___

RE: [Asterisk-Users] Simulating the lighted line in use type of phone

2004-02-24 Thread Christopher Lee
Then when the receptionist is on the phone, they could hit the services button, scroll through the list of extensions; see what the persons status is, and even transfer the call right through by pressing the Dial button underneath the extension if they hit Transfer before the Services

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Simulating the lighted line in use type of phone

2004-02-24 Thread Tim Sailer
On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 04:33:41PM -0500, mattf wrote: Take a look at my GUI app: http://sourceforge.net/projects/astguiclient/ It'll run on Linux and Windows, it's written in perl and it'll list every channel(Zap/SIP/Local) that is active on your system updated every second. You can