Hey!
I want to create a “Phone” using a raspberry pi and some buttons. I was looking for a way to get the button input into some sort of client but had no luck finding a good solution. I was looking for command line tools that I could use in a python script but all I found were deprecated or undocumented :(

Since I’m not a VOIP Pro, I wanted to ask here. Maybe someone has a nice tip or solution?! As I said the goal is not necessarily to find a command line tool, it is to get the button input from the PI’s GPIOs into a Software that can process audio only calls. I am fairly experienced in scripting, but I don’t know how much effort it would be to write a tool from scratch

Thanks already if someone has some kind of Information for me <3

  • dwargo@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Probably your best bet would be to find a binding for the pjsip library. It has a command line here but I’m not sure how that would work with incoming calls. It’s the library Asterisk is switching to so it’s pretty battle-tested.

    On the GPIO side, if you’re using ioctls I would use the new GPIO2 interface - it’s not entirely obvious the older one is deprecated. It’s event driven so you don’t have to spin-poll, and can do de-bouncing kernel-side. Of course Linus’s “don’t break userspace” mantra means the old interface will work for the foreseeable future.