Send Rest command from Asterisk PBX to ISY, possible?

[ferdies]

Hi,

 

I have this idea but I don’t know where to start. From Asterisk PBX, is there a way to send a Rest command to change an ISY variable content?

 

What I am thinking is that by using an IVR, one can press an option and specific variable in ISY will be changed thus triggering a program to execute.

 

Is this a good starting point?

https://wiki.asterisk.org/wiki/display/AST/Asterisk+12+Applications+REST+API

 

 

Thoughts? Thanks.

[MWareman]

I do this with an earlier version of Asterisk, by incorporating calling curl into my dialplan IVR menus. Works well. I think the URL you mention is the other way around, having Asterisk provide a REST api for things like call placement, queue management etc.

[ferdies]

Hi,

 

Maybe the URL is not the right one.

 

Do you still have the curl program that you've have incorporated into your dial plan you may be able to share?

 

I am planning to have a "secret" option within the IVR. However, since I know the option, after keying in the option, sub-IVR can give options like 1- turning garage on ; 2- Kitchen lights, 3-etc....

 

Thanks.

[ferdies]

Based on the suggestion of MWareman, I tried using "curl" Asterisk:

 

exten => 11688,n,curl(https://login:password@test.dyndns.biz:1234/rest/vars/set/2/88/1)

 

 

Example (POST-Method):
exten => _X.,2,curl(http://www.somehost.com/may_be_a_dir/file_to_call.php,postdata_var1=1&postdata_var2=something)
exten => _X.,3,Wait(5)
exten => _X.,4,NoOp(CURL-RESPONSE: ${CURL})

 

However, just trying ISY rest on a browser did not work.

https://login:password@test.dyndns.biz:1234/rest/vars/set/2/88/1

 

I could not remember where I read about authentication. Need some assistance please. BTW, I am running the rest command from a remote site.

 

 

Thanks.

[MWareman]

You may be running into a couple of things.

 

First - SSL trust. Is it a trusted cert. If not - you'll need -k to ignore that - but it's not *that* secure to do that.

Second - with curl you don't put the username and password on the URL. You specify the -u parameter.

 

Try it from the shell on your Asterisk system first:

 

curl -k -s -u user:pass https://test.dyndns.biz:1234/rest/vars/set/2/88/1

 

If this works, I included it in my dialplan like this:

 

exten => s,n,system(curl -k -s -u user:pass https://test.dyndns.biz:1234/rest/vars/set/2/88/1)

 

I'm not using the curl Asterisk command. Not sure why (it way a while ago!)

 

Michael.

[ferdies]

This is awesome! Thank you very much.

 

Turning ON and and OFF lights now through my phone system. There's so much to explore now!

[MWareman]

Glad I could help!

 

Michael.

[ISYhbsh01]

Hi,

 

I started playing around recently a bit with the PBX in a Flash version of Asterisk. The non-GUI version of Asterisk is above my pay-grade. Is there any way to implement the above mentioned way of sending REST commands in the PBX in a Flash system? Thanks in advance.

[MWareman]

I've only ever compiled my own Asterisk, and worked from the CLI, so I'm afraid I don't know what capabilities 'PBX In a Flash' has. Sorry.

[ISYhbsh01]

Thanks anyway.

 

The PBX in a Flash is a graphical UI for Asterisk. But It is still possible to manually edit the 'extensions.conf' file. If my understanding is correct, that's where the above cURL command needs to be written. I will try to see if I can figure something out.

 

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