Asterisk shabbat mode?

[Tzafrir Cohen]

On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 03:44:13PM +0200, geoffrey mendelson wrote:
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> On Jan 17, 2010, at 3:32 PM, ik wrote:
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>> But for that you need to know when is the shabat enter a specific  
>> location, so you need extra program for it (even if it's pure bash),  
>> to calculate the exact time it started. I think that the berkley  
>> should have the exact time and date for each week for that.
>> I agree that you can execute it like so, but it requires a bit more  
>> work then what you are pointing out imho.
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>
> Thanks everyone for the help, this has really been an education.
>
> In my case, I have a CISCO phone on my kitchen table, which has to get  
> put away when it's shabbat. So before I unplug it I can just dial some  
> number, and have it go into shabbat mode. If I forget, I can go into one 
> of the other rooms with a phone and do it there.
>
> It's not so much that exactly at candle lighting time (at least in my  
> case) that I want the phones to go into shabbat mode, it's when I shut  
> down the computers. which is often earlier. No, I don't shut down all of 
> them. :-)

You can use the simple fact that the phone is not registered as your
switch. See regexten in sip.conf . Or alternatively (for Asterisk >=
1.6.0) you can use the function DEVICE_STATE from within the dialplan.

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