[mythtv-users] OT: Re: vonage Voicemail Waiting Indicator on mythtv

[Kevin Kuphal]

Kevin Venkiteswaran wrote:
>> This section can be added the to script right after the check for 
>> callerid. It does not do anything with the info yet, but will give you
>> a 
>> starting point: 
>>
>> my $vmail=$dataset; 
>> if ($vmail=~/NOTIFY sip:/){ 
>> $vmail=$dataset; 
>> if ($vmail=~/Messages-Waiting: Yes/) { 
>> print("Voicemail Messages Waiting\n\n"); 
>> } 
>> if ($dataset=~/Messages-Waiting: No/) { 
>> print("No Voicemail Messages Waiting\n\n"); 
>> } 
>> } 
>> return; 
>> ___________
>>     
>
>
> I played with your code and was successful grabbing the voicemail alert.
> Thanks for the code!
>
> Now a larger problem: what to do about notifying the user? Ideally I'd
> like to have an alert that appears which requires the user to click
> 'ok'. This way a voicemail alert would show up and stay present even if
> the user is not present (ie, I'm at work, I get a voicemail and I don't
> get home for another 6 hours). 
>
> The other problem is having the alert appear regardless of the "screen"
> the user is on. mythtvosd only displays its alerts if the user is
> watching live tv or a recording. Any thoughts on how to have mythtvosd
> (or any program) show alerts at any time? 
>
> I played with xosd (osd_cat specfically) and though it does display osd
> on top of X, it isn't within the myth framework and thus isn't themed.
> Ie, it's quite unattractive.
>   
Have you considered knotify which pops up an OK dialog?

Kevin