{"id":313,"date":"2019-11-18T14:44:57","date_gmt":"2019-11-18T19:44:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cs.toronto.edu\/~jhancock\/wlog\/?p=313"},"modified":"2019-11-18T14:44:57","modified_gmt":"2019-11-18T19:44:57","slug":"creating-a-button-to-dial-videoconference-address-on-polycom-group-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cs.toronto.edu\/~jhancock\/wlog\/?p=313","title":{"rendered":"Creating a button to dial videoconference address on polycom Group Series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had been asked to create a one-button solution to dial a videoconference on a polycom group series.\u00a0 The unit was on a mobile cart and did not have a fixed IP.<\/p>\n<p>I used the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.polycom.com\/content\/dam\/polycom\/common\/documents\/technical-guides\/rpgs-integrators-reference-manual-tg-enus.pdf\">Polycom Intergrator Manual<\/a>\u00a0to get the API command needed:<\/p>\n<p>dial addressbook <strong>name<\/p>\n<p><\/strong>Where <strong>name<\/strong>\u00a0is the unique first name of an entry in the address book. I needed to create a serial connection from the button to the polycom serial cable (part number\u00a02457-63542-001) .\u00a0 I first tried an arduino with a\u00a0 MAX3232C transceiver and DB9 connector, but it could not send the signal required.\u00a0 I switched to a raspberry pi instead and a FTDI usb to serial adapter which worked correctly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had been asked to create a one-button solution to dial a videoconference on a polycom group series.\u00a0 The unit was on a mobile cart and did not have a fixed IP. I used the Polycom Intergrator Manual\u00a0to get the API command needed: dial addressbook name Where name\u00a0is the unique first name of an entry [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cs.toronto.edu\/~jhancock\/wlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cs.toronto.edu\/~jhancock\/wlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cs.toronto.edu\/~jhancock\/wlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cs.toronto.edu\/~jhancock\/wlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cs.toronto.edu\/~jhancock\/wlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=313"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.cs.toronto.edu\/~jhancock\/wlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":315,"href":"http:\/\/www.cs.toronto.edu\/~jhancock\/wlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313\/revisions\/315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cs.toronto.edu\/~jhancock\/wlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cs.toronto.edu\/~jhancock\/wlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cs.toronto.edu\/~jhancock\/wlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}