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

Matt skd5aner at gmail.com
Fri Jun 15 20:34:44 UTC 2007


On 3/19/06, Kevin Venkiteswaran <kkvenkit at gmail.com> 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.
>
> Kev
>
>
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Wow... digging through the archives here and found this.  Anyone ever
think of a way of integrating this to mythtvosd?

Thanks!
Matt


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