Changing CFC State doesn't update BLF Hints

[matthewljensen (Matthew Jensen)]

So I was reading through the forums and came across this post:

Re-route calls based on sip peer availability

OK, so then a Ring Group with all devices unavailable would take the Destination if no answer path right away, which you could route to a mobile? Then, you would include in the group e.g. a delayed Follow Me to voicemail, so when the system was working normally but no one answered, calls would go to the selected voicemail box.

I liked what I saw about programatically changing the state of a call flow control. So I built a script and implemented those custom database changes. Like so:

asterisk -rx "database put DAYNIGHT C1 DAY"

However, the BLFs that are watching the call flow control (ie. *280) don’t update. I’ve determined that I can change those programmatically too, by using devstate, but I would really rather not do that, and just have asterisk handle the state of the BLFs based off of the database to ensure that all of the BLFs are correctly showing all the time. Do I maybe need to run some hint refresh after changing them? I allowed quite a bit of time, but they never updated automatically.