Kezzism
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As a person who is new to PBX and generally engaged from a hobbyists perspective I've been searching for a way to make SIP phones relevant to me contextually, as that context has shifted from using the phone a lot to now mainly using other IP technologies and products.
Since I'm just using this at home I have some freedom to experiment - while I'm excited to try out the Facebook Messenger webhooks people have been talking about here along with other WebRTC and XMPP APIs for web apps that I use (more frequently than I call people tbh), I think one of the biggest things I'd want from a phone system like this would be the ability to use Google Assistant from a SIP phone. I could finally return my ex-roommate's Google Home Mini, and have it stop eavesdropping on me all the time, listening in for an inopportunely placed BurgerKing Commercial.
Thankfully, all I had to do was search Google to see if anyone had implemented something close to what I was imagining; thankfully it looks like they have:
This is a great example, and it makes me want to go further setting up and experimenting with this functionality on my own instance. I have a lot in common with the setup the guy in that video describes, mainly because I'm running the ESXi image of IncrediblePBX 13-13 (So I can use Google Voice with ease primarily) CentOS is a given, unfortunately what isn't a given is... any level of instruction from this source! Like, he's an end solution contractor, he's not gonna give away the magic Google genie in the LAMP stack.
But I have a suspicion that he got all his secret information from an open source, that's always how the story goes. Russell Grokett, the apparent progenitor of this, has done us all the favor of putting a pretty comprehensive guide to setting this up over on his GitHub, and it looks fantastic - even including detailed PDFs of a step-by-step process. The only thing is he's targeting Raspberry Pi as a platform, yes I know Linux is Linux for the most part; and I'm probably going to go through his setup guide when I have the time over the next few days. The reason I'm posting this here for now is because I probably don't have a ton of time on my hands considering, I searched the PIAF forms for threads referencing Google Assistant and I haven't found any - hence why I'm starting one now, to save folks time in the future~
Take a look over the install instruction PDF for this if you have a sec, see if there's any red flags when it comes to doing things with CentOS / IncrediblePBX that are described; when I get around to trying it myself I'll report back here with what I've found.
Thanks
Since I'm just using this at home I have some freedom to experiment - while I'm excited to try out the Facebook Messenger webhooks people have been talking about here along with other WebRTC and XMPP APIs for web apps that I use (more frequently than I call people tbh), I think one of the biggest things I'd want from a phone system like this would be the ability to use Google Assistant from a SIP phone. I could finally return my ex-roommate's Google Home Mini, and have it stop eavesdropping on me all the time, listening in for an inopportunely placed BurgerKing Commercial.
Thankfully, all I had to do was search Google to see if anyone had implemented something close to what I was imagining; thankfully it looks like they have:
This is a great example, and it makes me want to go further setting up and experimenting with this functionality on my own instance. I have a lot in common with the setup the guy in that video describes, mainly because I'm running the ESXi image of IncrediblePBX 13-13 (So I can use Google Voice with ease primarily) CentOS is a given, unfortunately what isn't a given is... any level of instruction from this source! Like, he's an end solution contractor, he's not gonna give away the magic Google genie in the LAMP stack.
But I have a suspicion that he got all his secret information from an open source, that's always how the story goes. Russell Grokett, the apparent progenitor of this, has done us all the favor of putting a pretty comprehensive guide to setting this up over on his GitHub, and it looks fantastic - even including detailed PDFs of a step-by-step process. The only thing is he's targeting Raspberry Pi as a platform, yes I know Linux is Linux for the most part; and I'm probably going to go through his setup guide when I have the time over the next few days. The reason I'm posting this here for now is because I probably don't have a ton of time on my hands considering, I searched the PIAF forms for threads referencing Google Assistant and I haven't found any - hence why I'm starting one now, to save folks time in the future~
Take a look over the install instruction PDF for this if you have a sec, see if there's any red flags when it comes to doing things with CentOS / IncrediblePBX that are described; when I get around to trying it myself I'll report back here with what I've found.
Thanks