Difference between revisions of "VOIP Phone Integration"
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When people successfully badge into the space, a tone plays and a message appears on the VOIP phones in the HAM/electronics room and elsewhere in the space to let people know somebody's arrived. | When people successfully badge into the space, a tone plays and a message appears on the VOIP phones in the HAM/electronics room and elsewhere in the space to let people know somebody's arrived. | ||
| − | The software for this runs on [[poquito]] which is an ancient (ca. 2011?) Raspberry Pi. Some of the software packages and such on poquito are out of date, the upshot is efforts to update things like versions of Python etc | + | The software for this runs on [[poquito]] which is an ancient (ca. 2011?) Raspberry Pi. Some of the software packages and such on poquito are out of date, the upshot is efforts to update things like versions of Python etc can be 'shaky'. The only reason I mention this is because there is a Python module called python-ESL [[https://github.com/sangoma/python-ESL]] that seems especially nicely suited to handling SIP/phone stuff, but we could not install it via pip. Kevin discovered a command line tool, SIPPing [[https://github.com/pbertera/SIPPing]] that creates and sends SIP packets albeit in a less clean and ideal fashion. |
It is worth noting that historically as we become aware of security issues that would affect poquito, we apply necessary patches. Not everything is latest and greatest, though. | It is worth noting that historically as we become aware of security issues that would affect poquito, we apply necessary patches. Not everything is latest and greatest, though. | ||
Revision as of 00:36, 11 September 2020
When people successfully badge into the space, a tone plays and a message appears on the VOIP phones in the HAM/electronics room and elsewhere in the space to let people know somebody's arrived.
The software for this runs on poquito which is an ancient (ca. 2011?) Raspberry Pi. Some of the software packages and such on poquito are out of date, the upshot is efforts to update things like versions of Python etc can be 'shaky'. The only reason I mention this is because there is a Python module called python-ESL [[1]] that seems especially nicely suited to handling SIP/phone stuff, but we could not install it via pip. Kevin discovered a command line tool, SIPPing [[2]] that creates and sends SIP packets albeit in a less clean and ideal fashion.
It is worth noting that historically as we become aware of security issues that would affect poquito, we apply necessary patches. Not everything is latest and greatest, though.
On poquito, in /home/pi/Bloominglabs/bots, there are two files: sipping_template.txt and sipping_func.py. The first has the packet format, the second has a function that 'wraps' SIPPing.
net_doorbot.py (in the same directory) is 'doorbot', and dosman put a lot of machinery in place that does checks to make sure it's running. As far as integrating SIPPing, just:
import sipping_func
which you can then call when you want to announce somebody has arrived:
sipping_func.announce_arrival('test person')
'import' working depends on /home/pi/Bloominglabs/bots being in PYTHONPATH. Or you can just do this:
import sys
sys.path.append('/home/pi/Bloominglabs/bots')
