Help with Custom Extension on Freepbx 16.

[lgaetz (Lorne Gaetz)]

There’s a method outlined here where you can branch a call based on the device state of a single extension

Using Dynamic Routes to branch call flow based on extension state

The “hint” in Asterisk is a dialplan mechanism that is defined to track the state of one or more resources such as a local device. Many things in FreePBX dialplan have an associated hint such as voicemail boxes, toggle feature codes, etc. It’s the hint that determines the behavior of the LED when you program a BLF button on a phone, but it can have other uses as well. From the Asterisk console run the command: core show hints and get a list of all hints available on the system. Some will be o…

If you have a list of extensions, you would modify the Asterisk expression to check them all.