[mythtv] Myth TV onscreen Caller ID

[Shawn Rutledge]

See

http://ecloud.org:8080/~ecloud/caller-id/

I wanted to do that too a couple years ago with XawTV....
I did it with broadcast packets so multiple clients all over the 
LAN can display the incoming calls.

You could probably drive xosd with cidrecv, or use xcidrecv, but that's
a generic X solution, not specific to MythTV.  If MythTV provides a
command-line method to put up an on-screen display (which I think it
should, for easy integration with external notification systems like
this), then you could just call that from cidrecv.

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


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