cuipp

node-cuipp

What?

node-cuipp is a node.js interface to Cisco Unified IP Phone services. If you have a fancy Cisco IP phone, this will help to show things on the screen and make the phone visit some URIs.

Why?

Because I'm sick and tired of Cisco's examples, usually involving manually-typed XML, snippets of C code, and complete lack of library use.

I based myself on the "Cisco Unified IP Phone Services Application Development Notes (Supporting XML Applications) Release 9.1(1)" document.

How? (do I use it)

Check examples_pull.js and examples_push.js for a basic set of sample commands.

The API is a bit weird in the sense that the phones have both a HTTP client and a HTTP server, and (almost) any payload can be either sent to the HTTP server or received from the HTTP client.

e.g. we can push a payload ot the phone via cuipp.send(phone,cuipp.text(foo)), but if the phone makes a HTTP request to a Node web server, and that server returns cuipp.text(phone.foo), then the result is exactly the same.

For examples_push.js, you can use fakePhone.js to test it out. For examples_pull.js, you can use a web browser and read through the payloads and change URLs yourself.