[mythtv] Myth TV onscreen Caller ID

Matthew S. Hallacy poptix at techmonkeys.org
Sat Jan 18 09:01:10 EST 2003


On Fri, Jan 18, 2002 at 04:01:30AM -0500, Derrick Rademaker wrote:
> while Im waiting for my equipment to arrive via several online 
> retailers I had a phone call from a telemarketer,  It made me 
> get up, go to the phone and look at the caller ID, then decide 
> whether I wanted to answer it, i chose to this time, but had I 
> seen a notification pop up on the screen of my tv with information 
> regarding the call I may have just let it go.  I would think that 
> something like this would be possible without intertupting the rest 
> of the programming, and had i any programming knowledge I would even 
> help out and start it, just an idea maybe one of you geniuses can 
> take it farther than this post

If anyone else is interested in this I've got plenty of experience
with CallerID capable modems, and applications. I could whip up a
fairly simple display with the current OSD.

Comments?

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