asterisk users - Dec 2009 - What changed in Directed PickUp between 1.6.1 and 1.6.2 ?

Hi,

I'm banging my head over this.

Usually, I'm using a SIP hardphone feature called "Call Pickup
Starcode" to
enhance BLF with Directed Call Pickup :
basically, SIP hardphone (here a Thomson ST2030S) is configured to send an
INVITE message whenever a BLF is pressed while blinking.
The INVITE is build with the extension number (attached to the BLF that was
blinking and pressed) prepended by a customizable Starcode sequence.

For instance, when extension 142 is ringing (and *8 is the CallPickup
Starcode), pressing the associated BLF would make the hardphone send an
INVITE to extension *8142.

With 1.6.1.11, this INVITE is treated as if "call picker" had dialed
*8142 :
it enters dialplan with appropriate extension and context.
With 1.6.2.0,  this INVITE fails with message like:
chan_sip.c:19814 handle_request_invite: Trying to pick up 462 at subs
The worst thing is that the INVITE message seems ignored and "Call
Picker"
phone keeps waiting for a reply from Asterisk.


Reading UPGRADE-1.6.txt didn't gave me any clue (as I suspected a change in
call-limit, counteronpeer, ... variable in sip.conf).

Is someone successfully using Directed Pickup with 1.6.2 ?

Regards
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21 dec 2009 kl. 00.04 skrev Olivier:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm banging my head over this.
> 
> Usually, I'm using a SIP hardphone feature called "Call Pickup
Starcode" to enhance BLF with Directed Call Pickup :
> basically, SIP hardphone (here a Thomson ST2030S) is configured to send an
INVITE message whenever a BLF is pressed while blinking.
> The INVITE is build with the extension number (attached to the BLF that was
blinking and pressed) prepended by a customizable Starcode sequence.
> 
> For instance, when extension 142 is ringing (and *8 is the CallPickup
Starcode), pressing the associated BLF would make the hardphone send an INVITE
to extension *8142.
> 
> With 1.6.1.11, this INVITE is treated as if "call picker" had
dialed *8142 : it enters dialplan with appropriate extension and context.
> With 1.6.2.0,  this INVITE fails with message like:
> chan_sip.c:19814 handle_request_invite: Trying to pick up 462 at subs
> The worst thing is that the INVITE message seems ignored and "Call
Picker" phone keeps waiting for a reply from Asterisk.
> 
> 
> Reading UPGRADE-1.6.txt didn't gave me any clue (as I suspected a
change in call-limit, counteronpeer, ... variable in sip.conf).
> 
> Is someone successfully using Directed Pickup with 1.6.2 ?
> 
The first paragraph under "SIP CHANGES" in CHANGES reads:
" * Added support for SUBSCRIBE/NOTIFY with dialog-info based call pickups.
   Snom phones use this for call pickup of extensions that the phone is
   subscribed to.
"

I bet it's this code that messes with you. I am not aware of the details of
the implementation, so I can't say if there's a way to turn it off.

/O