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Existing PBX systems often integrate into a wide range of hardware that might not be available in a VOIP environment. In this example we show how a Cisco 7960 phone is able to directly operate a WebBrick to build a door entry scheme. |
Direct control using Cisco Phones
Recently we had the opportunity to try out some of Cisco's latest phones.
These phones are equipped with an XML aware browser that can make HTTP calls and consume XML. That said, the XML is specific to Cisco. So we read through the do*****entation and created a Cisco landing page on the WebBrick that will return some XML that makes sense to the Cisco Phone schema.
Here's an example of the menu page, in this case generated using PHP on an embedded Linux system:
And here's the response menu showing that the WebBrick has accepted the command:
If you would like to use your WebBrick with a Cisco phone, the internal URL looks like: http://"WB-address"/cisco.spi?"WebBrick Command"
In this case, the command looks like: http://"WB-address"/cisco.spi?COM=DI0:
Here we see that this matches with the WebBrick configuration that will open the door for 5 seconds:
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