[mythtv-users] MythNotify suggestions

[Mike]

George Nassas wrote:

> On 5-Sep-05, at 4:56 PM, Mike wrote:
>
>> If I wanted to get callerID running via OSD with mythnotify. Would I 
>> just want to go pickup any old serial modem that supports callerid?
>
>
> Yes.
>
>> I've never used an analog modem on linux and hear most of them don't 
>> work
>
>
> Sure they do. However winmodems don't work too well since it's a 
> windows driver that's doing a lot of the modulating work.
>
> - George
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Well, I just got myself a hundred dollar caller id then. (external US 
Robotics serial modem) Fired MythNotify up with "AT #CID=1" and now I 
get caller id information on the frontends when somebody calls. Very cool.

Thanks,
-Mike