[mythtv-users] OT: Phone Concentrator(?)

[Jesse Guardiani]

Brad Benson wrote:
> On 9/30/05, *Jesse Guardiani* <jesse at wingnet.net 
> <mailto:jesse at wingnet.net>> wrote:
>
>
>     It would be nice if messages from mythosd would show up when you're
>     looking at the menus/mythmusic/mythweather/etc too. I'm not ALWAYS
>     watching TV, but I usually have myth ON in some form or fashion.
>
>
> Look into YAC and xYAC.  If you search the archives for yac you should 
> turn up a thread related to that.  At least I remember seeing one here 
> a while back.  xYAC allows you to popup messages and callerid info 
> using X and they display over anything - Myth menus, xine, mplayer, 
> ogle, whatever.  I was looking into doing this myself, but I just 
> haven't picked up a modem with callerid yet.

If you want to learn asterisk, X100P cards go for $15 on ebay.
That's what I use. Definitely has a learning curve, but you can
do a heck of a lot more than callerid with asterisk.

Thanks for the info. I'll look into it.

-- 
Jesse Guardiani
Programmer/Sys Admin
jesse at wingnet.net