<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 8:38 AM, Scott <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:scott@frak.ms">scott@frak.ms</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div style="word-wrap: break-word;"><div>Use the telnet interface of MythTV to pause playback when your script receives a caller id packet.</div><div><a href="http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Telnet_socket" target="_blank">http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Telnet_socket</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>You'll have to script something in Python telnetlib or Perl Net::Telnet to handle the communication, but that shouldn't be to hard?</div></div></blockquote><div><br>Perfect! Thanks. I didn't even know there was a telnet interface. Wonder how I missed that after all these years. Scripting shouldn't be a problem. <br>
</div></div><br>-- <br>Chris<br>