asterisk users - Feb 2008 - Asterisk as XMPP component. How to use it ?

Hi,

Do you really think Presence should be used to forward call to voicemail ?
My feeling is forwarding incoming calls to voicemail should remain a
different task as you could wish to remain unavailable for chat and still
reachable by phone.
As I can't see a way to define Presence status such as "unavailable for
chat
and phones", "unavailable for chat but available for phones" ...,
I think
both things should be kept separate.

At the opposite, I think it could be useful for an Asterisk server to act as
XMPP User Activity provider (ie update XEP-0108 field with
"on-the-phone"
value).
Do you agree ?
Is there any XMPP client supporting User Activity ?
Is Asterisk capable of getting or sending such User Activity messages ?

Regards
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Olivier wrote:
> At the opposite, I think it could be useful for an Asterisk server to 
> act as XMPP User Activity provider (ie update XEP-0108 field with 
> "on-the-phone" value).
> Do you agree ?
> Is there any XMPP client supporting User Activity ?
> Is Asterisk capable of getting or sending such User Activity messages ?
The Openfire XMPP server (http://www.igniterealtime.org/) has an 
asterisk plugin which uses the manager interface to send 'On the phone' 
status to XMPP clients. It works very well.
It also has the capability to Pause and Unpause queue members depending 
on idle status, but that is very annoying and we turn that off!

Cheers,
Ben

Hi Olivier,
> At the opposite, I think it could be useful for an Asterisk server to act
as
> XMPP User Activity provider (ie update XEP-0108 field with
"on-the-phone"
> value).
>  Do you agree ?
This is indeed a direction we should consider in order to relay call
and device state information to XMPP users. As those kind of messages
are exchanged via PEP (Personal Eventing via Pubsub), we'll have to
implement that too. But still, I'm not sure we can provide this kind
of presence information on behalf of XMPP users if we connect Asterisk
as a component.

On the other hand, by connecting Asterisk as a XMPP client, we could
easily pass call and device state information to that client's buddy
list. The main drawback of that method is that Asterisk needs to be
provided with the user password.
> Is there any XMPP client supporting User Activity ?
I know Psi supports PEP, not sure about User Activity though.
> Is Asterisk capable of getting or sending such User Activity messages ?
No.

Philippe