HAving extension light on when extension in use

JohnCleary

I hope the title makes sense...
With traditional PBX system, when an extension was in use, the light next to the extension short-key would like up to let other people in the office know that the extension is in use.

I have a client who is trying to do the same. I went to Google and found an article saying that it's not possible.

Is this true?

pizzahead77

It should be but depends on the setup.

I have it set up on my system at home

JohnCleary

Sorry forgot to mention the phones are Grandstream gxp2130

yuloni

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Mr. G

As mentioned already BLF is what you want to set up on the phone. You just set the BLF address to your PBX IP Address and see if it works. There shouldn't need to be any extra configuration on the PBX.

Asterisk definitely supports BLF. Such a handy feature for reception desks

JohnCleary

Sorry guys should have mentioned.... hosted PBX with Goldfish

Mr. G

JohnCleary wrote: »

Sorry guys should have mentioned.... hosted PBX with Goldfish

Oh. Goldfish may not work with BLF, I'm not sure.

Try setting the BLF server to sip.goldfish.ie and then the extension side keys as the internal extension, if this doesn't work try the SIP Username (eg. Try 1000 first before 10012567890).

Judging by these, it may not be supported:
http://soho66.co.uk/forum/default.aspx?g=posts&t=283
http://soho66.co.uk/forum/default.aspx?g=posts&t=237

Let us know if it works or not though

JohnCleary

Thanks for the info. About to blast off an email to goldfish to see. I really hope they do support it y clients really need it.

Mr. G

If it doesn't, then a Raspberry PI might cover you cheaply. Assuming no remote office/workers and not many users. It might be possible to use it as a BLF server.

domeld

From my experience BLF will work only when pbx and phone are in this same network, however i don't know if this is this same with hosted solution.