[Linphone-users] headset answer plugin (or "answer" IPC API)

[David Mansfield]

Hi,

I have a headset with an "answer" key.  The key currently doesn't work 
for anything in linux, but looking at the raw HID data I can see some 
bytes coming over that I could recognize with a perl script, c program 
or whatever to do something with.

What I'd like to do is answer an incoming linphone call with that 
button.  Is there a way for an external program to signal the linphone 
GUI to answer a call (much the way linphonecsh communicates with a 
linphone daemon)?  Alternatively is it possible to write a plugin / .so 
file to perform some additional functionality within the linphone 
application itself?  Maybe a D-Bus api? Some other 
inter-process-communication layer I don't know about?

A further twist is that I'm usually working within a remote desktop 
environment, so all keyboard events are getting captured and sent to the 
remote machine (and linphone is running locally), so doing this via an X 
keyboard event would be worse than one of the previously outlined solutions.

Thanks,
David Mansfield

P.S linphone is definitely the best soft-phone I've tried on linux. 
Great work!