Welcome to the Skype Connector plugin !
The Skype Connector has features similar to both the Instant Messenging Connector, and the SIP Connector.
- You can control HomeSeer from Skype Instant Messages, the same way as you can control HomeSeer from Jabber / MSN / Yahoo / ICQ... with the Instant Messenging connector.
- You can control HomeSeer from Skype Voice over IP phone calls the same way as with the SIP Connector. You just have to call the skype user that is running on your HomeSeer box, and homeseer will start talking to you, and ask you questions about what you want to do. IVR scripts that control call flow are very similar to the SIP Connector scripts, and can access all HomeSeer features. If you subscribed to SkypeIn, you can also get a real phone number to call HomeSeer.
- HomeSeer can send SMS to mobile phones (If you have enough Skype Credits to send SMS).
- HomeSeer can call any Skype user, and any PSTN phone if you have enough Skype Credits.
Voice over IP features
With the Skype plugin, your Homeseer computer can place and answer calls, can play and record wav files, speak and recognize DTMF tones... but you don't need any voice or analog modem ! You can build all kinds of interactive menus using the HomeSeer VB.NET scripting engine, and interact with HomeSeer devices the way you like.
- Supports inbound and outbound calls from/to any Skype Voice over IP Client.
- Supports outbound calls to any PSTN phone as long as you have enough Skype Credit
- Supports inbound calls from any PSTN phone as long as you subscribed to Skype-In
- Text to speech
- Playing and recording wav files
- DTMF recognition
- Integration with HomeSeer contact-list (Names, phone numbers, ring count before answer, announce caller, hangup on this caller)
- Caller-id announcements through HomeSeer Speaker.
- Integration with homeseer phone mailbox (leaving a message in a HS MailBox)
- Integration with HomeSeer phone answering machine (reading your messages)
- New event action added to Place outbound calls easily from any event.
- Script API to place calls from your scripts.
- Inband DTMF decoder for inbound and outbound PSTN calls.
- As the plugin is 100% driven by HomeSeer scripts, you can easily customize the sample IVR and build your own IVR scripts.
The sample IVR scripts installed with the plugin allow any caller to leave a message on your HomeSeer phone mailboxes. If you type the access code of your mailbox using DTMF keys, you access the admin menu. From there, you can review your messages, control HS devices, or transfer your call.
Instant messenging features
- You can fully control HomeSeer from any Skype Client using instant messages.
- Access level definition for each user
- Nested menus
- Macro definition with parameter substitution
- Device status by device code or device location + device name
- Can send all X10 commands by device code or device location + device name
- Thermostat control... etc
- Real time HomeSeer log forwarding, with filtering capabilities
- Supports sending Skype instant messages to any contact
- New event action added to Send a Skype instant message easily from any event.
- Script API to Send instant messages from your scripts.
SMS Feature
- HomeSeer can send a SMS to any mobile phone, if you have enough Skype credit.
- New event action added to Send a SMS easily from any event.
- Script API to Send SMS from your scripts.
- The script /Scripts/skype_sms_status.vb is run each time a SMS is delivered, or failed to deliver, so that you can follow SMS delivery status (See Scripting API for more Info).
User Online Status Feature
- A HomeSeer device can be created for each of your Skype contacts to follow their Online Status
Installing the plugin:
1) Install the latest version of the Skype Client on your HomeSeer PC, create a SkypeID and connect to the skype network.
2) Go to the HomeSeer updater, and choose the Skype Voip and SMS Connector plugin.
3) Once the plugin has been installed, you need to go to Setup/Interface and Enable the plugin.
To control HomeSeer from Skype Instant Messages, you have to configure the allowed Skype IDs. Go to Setup/Interfaces/Skype Connector/Config, then add allowed user ids and select the access level.
The sample Call-Flow scripts are also available in French. You can go to Setup/Interfaces/Skype Connector/Config then in the Settings tab choose skype_incoming_fr.vb as the Incoming Call Script.
Direct Links:
Skype Connector - Instant Message Command Reference
Skype Connector - HomeSeer Event Actions
Skype Connector - HomeSeer Scripting API
Skype Connector - Call-Flow Scripting API
Skype Connector - Call-Flow Voice Recognition Scripting API
Skype Connector - Sample Call-Flow Scripts
Help: If you don't have HomeSeer Phone...
Known issues:
- Problem with 8KHz wav files in your HS mailbox... Skype only works with 16KHz wav files.
- The plugin may not talk if the default voice is set to a Neospeech voice (Kate16 / Paul16) in the Windows Control Panel TTS applet. This problem is currently under investigation.
- The plugin cannot connect to old Skype Clients... if you see the SKYPE HomeSeer device with a never ending "Connecting..." status, first try to restart HomeSeer, then please update your Skype Client to the latest version if it still can't connect.
- On Vista / Windows 7 computers with UAC, if you run HomeSeer as Administrator, you also have to run Skype.exe as Administrator. Otherwise, the 2 applications cannot communicate.
- If you are running HS as a service, then you need to check the "allow this service to interract with the Desktop" checkbox in the Service configuration control panel applet.
The Skype Connector has features similar to both the Instant Messenging Connector, and the SIP Connector.
- You can control HomeSeer from Skype Instant Messages, the same way as you can control HomeSeer from Jabber / MSN / Yahoo / ICQ... with the Instant Messenging connector.
- You can control HomeSeer from Skype Voice over IP phone calls the same way as with the SIP Connector. You just have to call the skype user that is running on your HomeSeer box, and homeseer will start talking to you, and ask you questions about what you want to do. IVR scripts that control call flow are very similar to the SIP Connector scripts, and can access all HomeSeer features. If you subscribed to SkypeIn, you can also get a real phone number to call HomeSeer.
- HomeSeer can send SMS to mobile phones (If you have enough Skype Credits to send SMS).
- HomeSeer can call any Skype user, and any PSTN phone if you have enough Skype Credits.
Voice over IP features
With the Skype plugin, your Homeseer computer can place and answer calls, can play and record wav files, speak and recognize DTMF tones... but you don't need any voice or analog modem ! You can build all kinds of interactive menus using the HomeSeer VB.NET scripting engine, and interact with HomeSeer devices the way you like.
- Supports inbound and outbound calls from/to any Skype Voice over IP Client.
- Supports outbound calls to any PSTN phone as long as you have enough Skype Credit
- Supports inbound calls from any PSTN phone as long as you subscribed to Skype-In
- Text to speech
- Playing and recording wav files
- DTMF recognition
- Integration with HomeSeer contact-list (Names, phone numbers, ring count before answer, announce caller, hangup on this caller)
- Caller-id announcements through HomeSeer Speaker.
- Integration with homeseer phone mailbox (leaving a message in a HS MailBox)
- Integration with HomeSeer phone answering machine (reading your messages)
- New event action added to Place outbound calls easily from any event.
- Script API to place calls from your scripts.
- Inband DTMF decoder for inbound and outbound PSTN calls.
- As the plugin is 100% driven by HomeSeer scripts, you can easily customize the sample IVR and build your own IVR scripts.
The sample IVR scripts installed with the plugin allow any caller to leave a message on your HomeSeer phone mailboxes. If you type the access code of your mailbox using DTMF keys, you access the admin menu. From there, you can review your messages, control HS devices, or transfer your call.
Instant messenging features
- You can fully control HomeSeer from any Skype Client using instant messages.
- Access level definition for each user
- Nested menus
- Macro definition with parameter substitution
- Device status by device code or device location + device name
- Can send all X10 commands by device code or device location + device name
- Thermostat control... etc
- Real time HomeSeer log forwarding, with filtering capabilities
- Supports sending Skype instant messages to any contact
- New event action added to Send a Skype instant message easily from any event.
- Script API to Send instant messages from your scripts.
SMS Feature
- HomeSeer can send a SMS to any mobile phone, if you have enough Skype credit.
- New event action added to Send a SMS easily from any event.
- Script API to Send SMS from your scripts.
- The script /Scripts/skype_sms_status.vb is run each time a SMS is delivered, or failed to deliver, so that you can follow SMS delivery status (See Scripting API for more Info).
User Online Status Feature
- A HomeSeer device can be created for each of your Skype contacts to follow their Online Status
Installing the plugin:
1) Install the latest version of the Skype Client on your HomeSeer PC, create a SkypeID and connect to the skype network.
2) Go to the HomeSeer updater, and choose the Skype Voip and SMS Connector plugin.
3) Once the plugin has been installed, you need to go to Setup/Interface and Enable the plugin.
To control HomeSeer from Skype Instant Messages, you have to configure the allowed Skype IDs. Go to Setup/Interfaces/Skype Connector/Config, then add allowed user ids and select the access level.
The sample Call-Flow scripts are also available in French. You can go to Setup/Interfaces/Skype Connector/Config then in the Settings tab choose skype_incoming_fr.vb as the Incoming Call Script.
Direct Links:
Skype Connector - Instant Message Command Reference
Skype Connector - HomeSeer Event Actions
Skype Connector - HomeSeer Scripting API
Skype Connector - Call-Flow Scripting API
Skype Connector - Call-Flow Voice Recognition Scripting API
Skype Connector - Sample Call-Flow Scripts
Help: If you don't have HomeSeer Phone...
Known issues:
- Problem with 8KHz wav files in your HS mailbox... Skype only works with 16KHz wav files.
- The plugin may not talk if the default voice is set to a Neospeech voice (Kate16 / Paul16) in the Windows Control Panel TTS applet. This problem is currently under investigation.
- The plugin cannot connect to old Skype Clients... if you see the SKYPE HomeSeer device with a never ending "Connecting..." status, first try to restart HomeSeer, then please update your Skype Client to the latest version if it still can't connect.
- On Vista / Windows 7 computers with UAC, if you run HomeSeer as Administrator, you also have to run Skype.exe as Administrator. Otherwise, the 2 applications cannot communicate.
- If you are running HS as a service, then you need to check the "allow this service to interract with the Desktop" checkbox in the Service configuration control panel applet.
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