{"id":7566,"date":"2020-01-06T19:47:13","date_gmt":"2020-01-07T00:47:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.skyswitch.com\/?p=7566"},"modified":"2021-09-07T23:51:30","modified_gmt":"2021-09-07T23:51:30","slug":"webhooks-actions-urls-and-smart-lights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skyswitch.com\/blog\/webhooks-actions-urls-and-smart-lights\/","title":{"rendered":"Webhooks, Actions URLs and Smart Lights"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Desk phones controlling Smart Lights - Basics of Webhooks, ActionURLs and integration\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CLyWGyDo_Ws?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;ve had &#8216;Create ActionURL explainer video&#8217; on my personal todo list for years, mostly because I don&#8217;t think enough people are really using ActionURLs in our industry.&nbsp;ActionURLs have been around for a long time, and it might be something that you overlook when you&#8217;re in the WebUI of your phone, but you really shouldn&#8217;t.&nbsp;ActionURLs give you a big leg up against other phone companies by expanding your ability to customize for your customers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I find myself somewhat obsessed with smart home technology almost as much as VoIP. I spend too much time thinking about what I can do next and how I can bring the different pieces together to make life just a little easier. So it was a natural choice to use IFTTT and Philips Hue Smart Lights as a BLF-like mechanism for the purpose of education.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Outside of changing colors on lightbulbs, the possibilities are almost endless with ActionURLs. Some examples of things I&#8217;ve done in the past include: Logging missed calls to a google sheet, generating notifications for registration drops to help troubleshoot a Local Network issue, or to log when certain end customers put their phone in DND (when they swear they weren&#8217;t doing it). If you can think of it, you can probably do it, I hope this video makes life a little easier for you!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve had &#8216;Create ActionURL explainer video&#8217; on my personal todo list for years, mostly because I don&#8217;t think enough people are really using ActionURLs in our industry.&nbsp;ActionURLs have been around for a long time, and it might be something that you overlook when you&#8217;re in the WebUI of your phone, but you really shouldn&#8217;t.&nbsp;ActionURLs give&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":7588,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skyswitch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skyswitch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skyswitch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skyswitch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skyswitch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skyswitch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7566\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skyswitch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skyswitch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skyswitch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skyswitch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}