Asterisk Sip Phone Smart Light Switch

As someone who bought smart lights for my room, it is my duty to control them in all sorts of awesome ways. I have previously made my lights "mind controlled" with one of thouse neuro headsets, controlled the lights with a pair of glasses I made, but now, the most practical application, a Raspberry Pi powered Sip phone light switch! This isnt a tutorial for what I did, but I wanted to give some general steps for anyone to make there own if they wanted!

To make something simmiler, you need a SIP phone, and a server to run Asterisk, the program for phones. I used a Raspberry Pi 3b as the server for Asterisk which is also running Pi-Hole.

I followed Asterisk's tutorial to install asterisk on my raspberry pi. I then used a free iPhone app caled Zoiper to test my system out. Once that was working, I had to connect my Cisco 7940 Sip phone. This took alot of work, and it will be different for you, so I wont go into that here. After the Cisco phone was connected, I setup some asterisk extensions to run bash commands. I set my phone up so that when I call "1", it runs a bash command sending a webhook to ifttt, turning on my lights! Ifttt was verry kind to give me Ifttt Pro, and I will say that it has been amazing so far! I also added extensions to turn my lights off the same way, and added a way to type in brightness!

If you are having trouble with Asterisk, Google and patience is your friend.

If you have trouble with Ifttt web hooks, I made a video awhile ago that should help: here