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<br><br><div><div id="SkyDrivePlaceholder"></div>> >I installed trunk on my laptop today to play around with this. The command<br>> >line method (mythmessage --message_text=Hello World!) seems to work fine.<br>> >However, the url method (which I think will ultimately make sending my<br>> >caller id freepbx almost embarrassingly simple) does not seem to work...<br>> <br>> <br>> Well, I got it working, though I won't be implementing anything until trunk <br>> becomes release and there's a timeout option in MythMessage. The timeout <br>> feature is a bit key, because I have frontends hooked up to both my master <br>> and secondary backends, so without a timeout, Caller ID messages could start <br>> stacking up on them before someone turned them on for use.<br>> <br>> FWIW, for posterity, I came up with two ways of handling it.....<br>> -SNIP-<br></div><div><br></div><div><div>Resurrecting this a bit.</div><div><br></div><div>http://backendHostName:6544/Myth/SendMessage?Message="Call From: somebody etc." no longer appears to work, so I found this http://www.mythtv.org/pipermail/mythtv-users/2012-January/327022.html indicating the reason why. I found that this mythutil --message --message_text "Hello World" --timeout 30 --bcastaddr 192.168.25.32 works fine.</div><div><br></div><div>My intention was to have a simple php page on my backend that I would call from my pbx with the callerid details in the query string. My php is pretty weak (being generous) and I haven't been able to get exec(), shell(), etc working with the mythutil command, though they work fine with other command like ls. Can anyone offer any advice?</div><div><br></div><div>I am thinking somehthing like (which doesn't error, nor send the message)...</div><div><br></div><div>$message = "my message";</div><div>$host = "192.168.25.32";</div><div>exec('mythutil --message --message_text "$message" --timeout 30 --bcastaddr $host');</div></div> </div></body>
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