asterisk users - May 2006 - Polycom 600 presence indication on *LED*?

I've somehow managed to battle may way through hinting issues with 
type=peer type=friend and various other oddities and now have presence 
working correctly on my Polycom 600 and Grandstream GXP-2000 phones.

However, on the Polycom I have to press the Buddies softkey in order to 
see if an extension with a hints priority is in use or not.

I've spent all day going through google and my local archive of the 
mailing list, and from what I can see it appears that I should be able 
to set up one of the 6 "line" keys on the left of the phone to somehow
show presence indications. But I simply cannot figure out how. I only 
know how to configure a line key as, well, a line key (i.e. mapped to a 
particular SIP registration in sip.conf).

What do I need to do in order to get a nice LED or something to flash or 
light up or whatever on the phone to show that a particular extension on 
another phone is in use?

This is driving me totally insane. Any help would be appreciated!

Thanks,

Faris.

Create a contact entry with their extension and enable buddy watch on it

It will then show up on an unused line key


On May 27, 2006, at 3:26 PM, Faris Raouf wrote:
> I've somehow managed to battle may way through hinting issues with  
> type=peer type=friend and various other oddities and now have  
> presence working correctly on my Polycom 600 and Grandstream  
> GXP-2000 phones.
>
> However, on the Polycom I have to press the Buddies softkey in  
> order to see if an extension with a hints priority is in use or not.
>
> I've spent all day going through google and my local archive of the  
> mailing list, and from what I can see it appears that I should be  
> able to set up one of the 6 "line" keys on the left of the phone
to
> somehow show presence indications. But I simply cannot figure out  
> how. I only know how to configure a line key as, well, a line key  
> (i.e. mapped to a particular SIP registration in sip.conf).
>
> What do I need to do in order to get a nice LED or something to  
> flash or light up or whatever on the phone to show that a  
> particular extension on another phone is in use?
>
> This is driving me totally insane. Any help would be appreciated!
>
> Thanks,
>
> Faris.
>
>
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