asterisk users - Sep 2006 - max number of devices in hint

I have one extension that rings in many places.  It has just come to my
attention that I can only monitor 4 devices within a hint.

Ex:

exten => 132,hint,SIP/DEVA&SIP/DEVB&SIP/DEVC&SIP/DEVD

if I add SIP/DEVF, DEVF is not monitored.

Is anyone else monitoring more than 4 devices, and if so, what version are
you running?

I'm running 1.2.12.1.  I thought at first this may be a phone issue, but by
running SHOW HINTS on the CLI, it shows InUse using the first four devices.
The fifth device shows IDLE when it is, in fact, in use.  I also switched
places for DEVD and DEVE thinking maybe it was something with DEVE.  When I
switch places, DEVE shows as expected and DEVD does not show.

Any ideas?


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In article <56a990d20609261953k78d90b94rbee266d7f78e1855@mail.gmail.com>,
aspendora@gmail.com says...
> I have one extension that rings in many places.  It has just come to my
> attention that I can only monitor 4 devices within a hint.
> 
> Ex:
> 
> exten => 132,hint,SIP/DEVA&SIP/DEVB&SIP/DEVC&SIP/DEVD
> 
> if I add SIP/DEVF, DEVF is not monitored.
I'm interested, why do you monitor multiple devices within a hint? If one
device is in use (and three are free), how does it show - in use or as free?


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Ok, I just setup a test setup that allowed for five devices (actually in
this case five lines) to be monitored.

Next question, does anyone know if there is a limit to the number of
characters allowed for the hint?  That may be what's causing the issue.  I
just switched to using the MAC addresses for all devices (as suggested in
another thread, with -a at the end for line 1, and so on).

I wouldn't even know where to begin to look in the code for this.  I'm
thinking that maybe I should just label the phones 1- whatever and then it
would be SIP/1A for device 1, line 1, etc.

On a simpler setup, I would just name them the extension, but nothing having
to do with the three companies I'm working for is simple.  Everything always
has to be complicated...
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In article <56a990d20609270111w187fb359v2918a6e8c4ee00c1@mail.gmail.com>,
aspendora@gmail.com says...
> I'm glad you asked :-)  If we had Shared Line Appearances, I would not
have
> to do this.  However, I could be at any of about 6 different phones, and on
> any of about 4 lines per phone.  Therefore, to monitor whether or not I am
> on the phone would take a 24 BLF buttons or just one, if hinting allowed
> that many.
How many hands/ears you have? ;))



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Lama Computers Split
Stinice 12, 21000 Split
Tel.: +385(21)495148
Mob.: +385(91)1212148
SIP: tomo@pbx.lama.hr
e-mail: tparcina#lama.hr
http://www.lama.hr

> I have one extension that rings in many places.  It has just come to my
> attention that I can only monitor 4 devices within a hint.
>
Pretty sure I know what the problem is now.  It's not limited by devices,
its limited by the length.  This is when it would be nice to know C.  I'm
assuming the variables are declared and also declared as a certain length.

I need to increase this length for whatever variable holds the hint
information.  Any hints? :-)  I don't even know where to start looking.
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In case anyone runs into this, I'm posting what I ended up doing...

I tracked down a file under include/asterisk/channel.h

This file defines the length of the variables in this section:

/*! Max length of an extension */
#define AST_MAX_EXTENSION 80
#define AST_MAX_CONTEXT 80
#define AST_CHANNEL_NAME 80

Not knowing which one, I changed all three to 255, recompiled, and my hints
work now.  If I were to guess, I would guess that AST_CHANNEL_NAME is the
variable that needs to be changed.  At this point, I've got a relatively
small setup with 2 gigs of ram and over 1 gig free after compiling, so I
don't think I'm taking that big of a hit.


On 9/26/06, Lacy Moore - Aspendora <aspendora@gmail.com>
wrote:
>
> I have one extension that rings in many places.  It has just come to my
> attention that I can only monitor 4 devices within a hint.
>
> Ex:
>
> exten => 132,hint,SIP/DEVA&SIP/DEVB&SIP/DEVC&SIP/DEVD
>
> if I add SIP/DEVF, DEVF is not monitored.
>
> Is anyone else monitoring more than 4 devices, and if so, what version are
> you running?
>
> I'm running 1.2.12.1.  I thought at first this may be a phone issue,
but
> by running SHOW HINTS on the CLI, it shows InUse using the first four
> devices.  The fifth device shows IDLE when it is, in fact, in use.  I also
> switched places for DEVD and DEVE thinking maybe it was something with
> DEVE.  When I switch places, DEVE shows as expected and DEVD does not show.
>
> Any ideas?
>
>
> --
> Lacy Moore
>
>


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I'm the guy that doesn't give a damn about anyone's problems but my
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