RE: [misterhouse-users] Asterisk and MH IPC methods

[Jason S. <ja...@sh...>]

On Fri, 21 Nov 2003, Bruce Winter wrote:

> > I finally got a skeleton chan_mh.so module "Dial(MH/1)" compiled and
> > intercepting a few things from *, and am wondering what are all of the
> > ways MH can do IPC and what would be the best way to interface.
> >
> > I know about these:
> >
> > - cmd.txt file (/tmp/xxxx)
> > - Telnet server (port 1234)
> > - Web server (port 8080)
> > - MHsend (port 8094)
> > - xAP_Item (udp)
> >
> > I probably want to directly call methods of the Telephony_Item derived
> > object I will be making on the MH side, but will also need asynchronous
> > information back from the Telephony_Item object as well.
> >
> > I am not all that familiar with MHshend port but it appears this might be
> > what I am looking for (is this what the proxy stuff uses?).   xAP looks
> > interesting as well, but do not have experience with this protocol either.
> > I could also make my own tcp server, but was looking to avoid inventing
> > yet another protocol(tm).
> >
> > -J
> 
> The proxy stuff uses its own Socket_Item object, created in
> code/proxy/proxy_server.pl .    The web, cmd.txt, and mhsend interfaces only
> go one way asynchorously (mh responding to requests).      xAP or xPL were
> designed to do what you want.   I think there is skeleton code in various
> languages on both sites.   I could also cook up an example perl xAP and/or
> xPL client if you needed an example.
> 

Bruce, 

	Is there a xAP server already written for executing voice commands 
or setting states on objects?

-J