<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 4/24/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Michael Rice</b> <<a href="mailto:mikerice1969@hotmail.com">mikerice1969@hotmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I'd really like to display caller id info on my Myth boxes but I lack the<br>necessary hardware. I don't think I've had a machine with a modem for 7<br>years or so.<br><br>I've searched the web to try to find some recent info on this but haven't
<br>had much luck. Info on modems seems very old and I have no idea what modem<br>I'd need to buy today that would work on Linux for this purpose.<br><br>Since I really don't need the modem for anything other than caller id info
<br>maybe there is another solution besides a modem?<br><br>In any case I have just the standard US phone system (no VoIP or anything<br>special).<br><br>Can someone who has accomplished this recently give me the details on your
<br>hardware (and a link to where I can buy it). I am pretty confident I can<br>figure out the software side if I can get the right hardware. I'll update<br>the wiki if I am successful.<br><br>Thanks.</blockquote><div>
<br>Personally I'd check this out : <a href="http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Setting_up_MythNotify">http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Setting_up_MythNotify</a><br><br>Thats more or less the easiest way to go, and from past experience I would recommend an external hardware modem (internal can work and even some software ones will work but the external serial ones work best). I picked up an older USR
33.6 data/fax and have it working great. <br><br>Personally i'm using elseed + yac to broadcast to my xbox and windows machines and send me an email when a call comes in though I did have to modify the source to get that working....Reason I did that is I don't have a mythfrontend per say, my backend runs headless and I use an xbox for the frontend with xbmcmythtv.
<br><br>Anyway check that link out and it should give you what you need and is fairly easy to do, some of the other links from other posters will work but seem to be more expensive/complicated. <br></div><br></div><br>