BLF on Asterisk 1.4.11 and Asterisk-Users mailing list

Asterisk Asterisk General
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I’ve been finding that hinting is highly unreliable under 1.4.11. I just recently decided to try using 1.4, because a coworker’s been using it for a while now, and I’ve had a number of people on Freenode telling me it was quite stable. However, what I’ve found is that the BLF (the main reason I made the leap) is even more unstable than the BLF in 1.2.

I haven’t had a problem with BLF in recent (last two months) history with 1.2. However, the first time I tried BLF in 1.4, it was not working reliably.

  1. SIP phone is busy, but show hints still shows it as being idle; I’m guessing this problem has to be an Asterisk bug
  2. Zap hints not showing as being watched until about eight hours after I program the BLF keys into an Aastra 57i and reboot
  3. Parked call hints not showing up as being watched ever after I program the BLF keys into an Aastra 57i and reboot

I have a bug report for this at bugs.digium.com/view.php?id=10818

On a side note, I can’t seem to get any messages posted to the asterisk-users mailing list. I’ve checked the archives as well, just in case I wasn’t getting them echoed back, but they’re not there, either.

I will be posting sip debug and syslog logs to the bug report probably tomorrow.

Thanks for any help you might be able to offer.

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Hi,
there are some extra settings needed in 1.4 for hints to work properly.

In sip.conf
notifyringing=yes
notifyhold=yes
limitonpeers=yes

in each extension definition
call-limit=50

The actual call-limit value is not important, it just needs something other than zero to work with (and if less than 2 you can’t transfer so don’t go too low).