BLF/HINT support broken in 1.4.9?

Metaron · July 30, 2007, 9:06pm

HINT support is changed

*  IMPORTANT: In Asterisk 1.4 the inner workings of the hint functionality have slightly changed. It is now imperative that you set a call-limit and/or the new limitonpeers= value in sip.conf. Presence will not work without this.
* If you do not add a hint, the extension will be free ("open") always, more or less.
* If you add incominglimit=1 to your peer in sip.conf, the SIP channel will notify you when that extension is busy.

But doesn’t functioning fine

The status will not be updated in the CLI also. What’s going wrong? It works fine 1.2.22

Brett_Matthews · July 31, 2007, 4:12am

You need to enter individual peer call-limit entries.

I have been told by Digium that this is supposedly fixed, but after trying numerous different ways, the extension state update never happens. As soon as I add the individual entries per extension the BLF stuff happens again.

mylo78 · July 31, 2007, 4:15am

If you’re using the asterisk-gui

Edit users.conf manually.

In the [general]] section, add:

* allowsubscribe=yes
* subscribecontext=default
* notifyhold=no
* notifybusy=yes
* limitonpeer=yes
* call-limit=2
* busylimit=1

Hope this gives you a … hint ba boom tish

Metaron · July 31, 2007, 3:45pm

[quote=“mylo78”]If you’re using the asterisk-gui

Edit users.conf manually.

In the [general]] section, add:

* allowsubscribe=yes
* subscribecontext=default
* notifyhold=no
* notifybusy=yes
* limitonpeer=yes
* call-limit=2
* busylimit=1

Hope this gives you a … hint ba boom tish[/quote]

Solved, thank you guys!

In the [general] sip.conf:
allowsubscribe=yes
notifybusy=yes
limitonpeer=yes
notifyhold=no

for a [peer/friend]:

call-limit=2
busy-limit=1

AND i had to specify a context in my phone (snom 360) for this BLF function-key.

jasperroel · August 21, 2007, 10:11am

I’m working on Asterisk 1.4.5 now, and the above comment got it working on our installation.

Indeed its important to put the call-limit and busylimit in the peers/friend section, not the [general] section.

We’re using Grandstream phones, which are now, finally, giving us nice BLF notifications!

Thanks metaron (and others )!

robert.mcnaught · August 22, 2007, 11:50pm

alright guys/girls

im trying to get this working with polycoms, I have all the settings discussed in this threat for all my sip friends, and not getting the BLF field to change

when it is said that you needed to put a context in the BLF function-key? is this the equivalent of a directory entry on a polycom?

Anyone here got this working with a polycom - there is surprisingly little documentation out there on this.

TIA

Robert

rjenkins · August 23, 2007, 5:47am

Hi, I just answered this for someone else, have a look at this post:
forums.digium.com/viewtopic.php?t=17584

If it doesn’t work, let me know & I’ll check my settings again.