Manual Dev State

Asterisk Asterisk Support
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Howdy,

I am currently using asterisk 1.4. I would like to set a manual or fake device state and make the blf light on. Saying it was fake means the extension can still dial out if they want to. Is there a way I can do this?
Please help me out.

Thanks

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Asterisk 1.4 is almost 6 years beyond end of life, and doesn’t support custom device states.

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Yes I agree with you, our system is 10years old and it does have a lot of customer in it and upgrading it is not an option right now. Is there any other way?

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Anyone here?

I just want to do this.

asterisktest*CLI> devstate change Custom:SIP/4000 Busy
Changing SIP/4000 to Busy

but it’s not changing to Busy
4000@local-extensions: SIP/4000 State:Idle Watchers 1

If you guys have idea please let me know.

Thanks.

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You can’t. The hint is using “SIP/4000” which is a device. It’s not a custom device state and you can’t control it using devstate change. You would have to reference “Custom:SIP/4000” in the hint instead.

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I see. Talking about hint, is it possible to set a BUSY state even though the phone is available to be called?

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No, you can’t control the device state of it so you can’t do that.

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Thank you jcolp, do you have any other way in mind that can do this?

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“This” being manipulate presence information on Asterisk 1.4?

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Change your Hint.

exten => _4XXX,hint,SIP/${EXTEN}&Custom:DND${EXTEN}

Then change the device state of Custom:DND4000

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He’s using Asterisk 1.4 and I don’t think that custom hints had been introduced in that version!

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Hi John, when I use that to one of my hint is shows like this, when I hit core show hints

@macro-ASetHintInUse : SIP/&Custom:InUse State:Idle Watchers 0,

should this be okay?

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results is this,
Executing [s@macro-AChangeDeviceState-InUse:2] Set(“SIP/409-00000173”, “DEVICE_STATE(Custom:InUse413)=INUSE”) in new stack.

is this is my command to change the devstate
exten => s,n,Set(DEVICE_STATE(Custom:InUse413)=INUSE),

can you tell me what I am missing?

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What you are missing is that this wasn’t introduced until a later version of Asterisk.

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That does not look correct.

I gave an example above on how to hint an extension to both a SIP device and a custom field.

I don’t think you would want to hint your macro extension, instead the hint should likely be part of the extension for the user.

@david551 there was a backport of the device state stuff to 1.4, I’m assuming that’s what @anakngsultan is using.

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Hi John,

This works for me, slightly change but your suggestion is my base.
thanks again.