Raspberry Pi as Night Ringer OR Intercom

Update: Since this post we started using USB Audio dongles for better quality over the internal audio ports, removing the need to use the loopback driver /sbin/modprobe snd-aloop Thanks Ed for the reminder! So I absolutely hate adapting ATA’s or whatever to use with old intercom systems, and Valcom’s solution is way over priced for what most people need. This Continue reading Raspberry Pi as Night Ringer OR Intercom

Hall.com Chat API PHP Example

I was not able to find any good examples so I made one specific for php and hall.com’s api I use it to notify the helpdesk lobby of an incoming call on my freePBX 🙂 <?php function HallAPI($message) { $data = array(“title” => “Alert”, “message” => $message, “picture” => “http://domain.com/logo.jpg”); $data_string = json_encode($data); $result = @file_get_contents(‘https://hall.com/api/1/services/generic/*********APIKEY*******’, null, stream_context_create(array( ‘http’ => Continue reading Hall.com Chat API PHP Example