PepperDash.Essentials.Plugin.CiscoRoomOsCodec 1.2.0

Cisco RoomOS Video Codec Plugin

License

Provided under MIT license

Overview

The Cisco RoomOS plugin provides device control over the Cisco Webex family of video conference codecs with regards to the most commonly used and requested attriute and control types.

It implements all available essentials interfaces relevant to a device of this type, including but not limited to VideoCodecBase. Interfaces supported can be found by viewing the declaration of the CiscoCodec class in CiscoRoomOsCodec.cs.

Additionally, every component implements IKeyed and all devices are added to the DeviceManager unpon instantiation.

Cloning Instructions

After forking this repository into your own GitHub space, you can create a new repository using this one as the template. Then you must install the necessary dependencies as indicated below.

Dependencies

The Essentials libraries are required. They referenced via nuget. You must have nuget.exe installed and in the PATH environment variable to use the following command. Nuget.exe is available at nuget.org.

Installing Dependencies

To install dependencies once nuget.exe is installed, run the following command from the root directory of your repository: nuget install .\packages.config -OutputDirectory .\packages -excludeVersion. To verify that the packages installed correctly, open the plugin solution in your repo and make sure that all references are found, then try and build it.

Installing Different versions of PepperDash Core

If you need a different version of PepperDash Core, use the command nuget install .\packages.config -OutputDirectory .\packages -excludeVersion -Version {versionToGet}. Omitting the -Version option will pull the version indicated in the packages.config file.

Instructions for Renaming Solution and Files

See the Task List in Visual Studio for a guide on how to start using the templage. There is extensive inline documentation and examples as well.

For renaming instructions in particular, see the XML remarks tags on class definitions

CiscoCodecJoinMap

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Config Notes

This configuration matches a standard essentials device configuration at the base level, with only the type being different. This may have the type ciscoRoomOS, as defined in CiscoCodecFactory.

"key": "Codec-1",
    "name": "Video Codec 1",
    "type": "ciscoRoomOS",
    "group": "videoCodec",
    "properties": {
        "control": {
            "endOfLineString": "\n",
            "deviceReadyResponsePattern": "",
            "method": "Ssh",
            "tcpSshProperties": {
                "address": "10.0.0.1",
                "port": 22,
                "autoReconnect": true,
                "AutoReconnectIntervalMs": 10000,
                "username": "admin",
                "password": "tandberg"
            }
        }
    }
}

An example bridge configuration is as follows

"uid": 20,
    "key": "eisc-vc",
    "type": "eiscApiAdvanced",
    "group":"api",
    "name": "EISC VC Bridge",
    "properties": {
        "control":{
            "tcpSshProperties":{
                "address":"127.0.0.2",
                "port":0
            },
            "ipId":"4F"
        },
        "devices": [
            {
                "deviceKey":"Codec-1",
                "joinStart":1                    
            }
        ] 
    }
}

Helful info

in a terminal you can send a string directly to the device, here is an example command using "Codec-1-ssh" as the device port name

devjson:1 {"deviceKey":"Codec-1-ssh","methodName":"SendText", "params": ["xStatus SystemUnit\n"]}

see what methods you can call on the port by sending the following command

devmethods Codec-1-ssh

To see commands send and received you can turn on debugging for the port (1: Rx, 2:Txm 3:Both)

setdevicestreamdebug Codec-1-ssh 1