[mythtv-users] SMS and caller ID showing on frontend

[James Orr]

On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 9:09 PM, George Mari
<george_mythusers at mari1938.org>wrote:

> On 06/08/2010 03:10 PM, James Orr wrote:
>
>> Somehow my incoming SMS messages and caller ID information for calls
>> coming into my cell phone are showing up on my mythtv frontend.
>>
>> I guess I must have set this up some time in the past, but I have no
>> memory of doing so.  How's this happening?
>>
>> MythNotify is what I've used in the past for this, along with ncid. (ncid
> is not a myth component or plugin.)
>
> Unless it's coming in on your settop box, and myth is just recording that
> as it appears on your screen?
>
> No, it's definitely not my STB, it popped up today as my phone rang while I
was watching something previously recorded.

I google'd ncid a bit, and that seems to be to do with modems and getting
caller ID from land lines, this isn't a land line.  It's displaying SMS and
incoming calls to my (verizon) cell phone and there are no modems anywhere
on my network (unless you count the cable modem I guess).

It's really weird, I have no memory of setting anything like this up, and I
only noticed it a few weeks ago (nothing has been upgraded on frontend or
backend for months).   I don't get many calls on that phone outside of
business hours though.

And ... I think I've just figured it out.  It's an android phone and I have
MythDroid on it, which has an option to display incoming calls and SMS on
the OSD.  Now it all makes sense.
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