The Watchers value show how many other phones you have configured with BLF (Busy
Lamp Field) ?pointing? to that equipment.
It means how many other phones you have watching that equipment state.
In your case, if you don?t use BLF on your phones, that value will always be 0,
i suppose.
--
Rui Mota
On Monday 19 January 2015 at 14:06, Stefan Viljoen wrote:
> Hi all
>
> If I have the following in my dialplan:
>
> exten=>25001,hint,SIP/25001
>
> Doing a
>
> core show hint 25001
>
> results in
>
> 25001 at local : SIP/25001
> State:Idle Watchers 0
> 1 hint matching extension 25001
>
> in the Asterisk CLI.
>
> What does the
>
> Watchers 0
>
> mean?
>
> I use the hints table output via core show hints for logic in my dialler
> application - but what is a "watcher" in the context of dialplan
hints?
>
> Is this something I can make use of? My dialler app uses SSH to get the
> asterisk -rx output of core show hints and then string processes the result
> to determine which extensions are busy, et al.
>
> Can I for example somehow subscribe as a watcher to a hint or somesuch?
>
> Thank you
>
> Stefan
>
>
>
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