asterisk users - Jun 2009 - Extension status as XML for an Aastra 57i

I'm in the process of converting our current hybrid key system to
Asterisk and Aastra 57i phones. One of the features that seems to be a
show stopper for almost everyone in the office is the inability to see
who is on the phone. Can someone point in the right direction to setup
an XML app on the phone so they can press a soft-button and get a list
of extensions and their statuses? I know I can use BLF and the line 2-4
buttons; but there are a lot more then 3 other people working here and
I'm planning on using those of parking lots.

Any help will be greatly appreciated as I'm an Asterisk noob learning as
fast as I can.

Thanks in advance,

Jeremy

On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 4:17 PM, Jeremy Winder <jwinder at
logicalsi.com>wrote:
> I'm in the process of converting our current hybrid key system to
> Asterisk and Aastra 57i phones. One of the features that seems to be a
> show stopper for almost everyone in the office is the inability to see
> who is on the phone. Can someone point in the right direction to setup
> an XML app on the phone so they can press a soft-button and get a list
> of extensions and their statuses? I know I can use BLF and the line 2-4
> buttons; but there are a lot more then 3 other people working here and
> I'm planning on using those of parking lots.
>
> Any help will be greatly appreciated as I'm an Asterisk noob learning
as
> fast as I can.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Jeremy
>
>
Side cars I guess.  You could give them all a shortcut to FOP (Flash
Operator Panel)

I hear snom makes a good sidecar but I have zero experience with them.

Another thought is to integrate with Jabber so you can see who it on the
phone or even away, or whatever status.

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Jeremy Winder wrote:
> I'm in the process of converting our current hybrid key system to
> Asterisk and Aastra 57i phones. One of the features that seems to be a
> show stopper for almost everyone in the office is the inability to see
> who is on the phone. Can someone point in the right direction to setup
> an XML app on the phone so they can press a soft-button and get a list
> of extensions and their statuses? I know I can use BLF and the line 2-4
> buttons; but there are a lot more then 3 other people working here and
> I'm planning on using those of parking lots.
> 
> Any help will be greatly appreciated as I'm an Asterisk noob learning
as
> fast as I can.
> 
If you'd like a more generalized approach you can install an Openfile
server and use the Asterisk plugin.   That'll give you an internal IM
server which will show the status you seek.

Barry


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On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 3:17 PM, Jeremy Winder<jwinder at logicalsi.com>
wrote:
> I'm in the process of converting our current hybrid key system to
> Asterisk and Aastra 57i phones. One of the features that seems to be a
> show stopper for almost everyone in the office is the inability to see
> who is on the phone. Can someone point in the right direction to setup
> an XML app on the phone so they can press a soft-button and get a list
> of extensions and their statuses?
We have a few of those phones and the associated sidecards.  Using a
combination of hints and parking, you can get the status of the other
phones to show up on the side car.

I found all the information on voip-info.org for how to do it.  Parking, hints
the aastra configs and all.

You can also do that with the softkeys on the top and bottom of the screen.

-jonathan

On Tue, 2009-06-30 at 16:17 -0400, Jeremy Winder wrote:
> I'm in the process of converting our current hybrid key system to
> Asterisk and Aastra 57i phones. One of the features that seems to be a
> show stopper for almost everyone in the office is the inability to see
> who is on the phone. Can someone point in the right direction to setup
> an XML app on the phone so they can press a soft-button and get a list
> of extensions and their statuses? I know I can use BLF and the line 2-4
> buttons; but there are a lot more then 3 other people working here and
> I'm planning on using those of parking lots.
> 
> Any help will be greatly appreciated as I'm an Asterisk noob learning
as
> fast as I can.
	The 57i phone has 6 soft buttons which can show the status of at least
16 phones (if you do not want to use the rest of the soft buttons which
would give you another 16).  If you really need to have more you should
use the 536M or 560M console which can display up to 60 extensions.

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