Integrate Mews
- Wolfgang Granzer
Basic architecture
The NETx Server provides an interface which can be used to integrate information from the hotel management system Mews. Using this interface, information about the check-in/check-out procedure and the hotel room states can be retrieved.
The communication is based on a REST full HTTP web service protocol that is using JSON objects as data payload and a websocket to retrieve events like check-in / check-out or changing room status. The Mews cloud service is the web API server and the NETx server is the client.
Integration steps
To start, open the menu Modules > Mews > Configuration. . With the dialog, specify the Access Token and the User TokenID must be specified. This information can be retrieved from your Mews cloud account.
For a production environment, the Platform and Websocket URL can be kept at their default values. If other environments (e.g. the demo environment) are used, the corresponding URLs have to be entered too.
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Afterwards, the Core Server can be started. During startup, the Core Server connects to the Mews cloud service and tries to fetch the available hotel rooms.
To check that the connection was successful, open the item tree and navigate to NETx > XIO > Mews and verify that the GATEWAY item is set to true.
If the connection is not successful, please search server system logs for warning and error messages.
The retrieved hotel rooms are shown in the sub item tree Rooms.
For room, the following items are available:
Item name | Data type | Access | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
Id | String | read only | Shows the resource ID within the Mews system. |
RoomChecked | Boolean | read only | True if the room is currently booked (Mews reservation state Started) – false otherwise. |
RoomStatus | int | read only | Mews status of the hotel room. The following states are available:
|
RoomStatusText | String | read only | Text representation of the room status |
During the first startup, all available hotel rooms are fetched from the Mews cloud service and stored within the Room Definitions. This definition can be found in the Core Studio in the menu Modules > Mews > Room definitions.
If you would like to use not all available rooms, you can selected the corresponding rooms and convert them to comments. After having saved the definition file, the commented rooms will be deleted from the server item tree.
Do not delete unnecessary rooms from the room definition. If rooms are deleted, they will be added again at the next server startup.
Article applies to the following products:
NETx BMS Platform
NETx Multi Protocol Server