[mythtv] Myth TV onscreen Caller ID

mark at zzo.com mark at zzo.com
Mon Jan 20 11:28:46 EST 2003


Caller-ID info is transmitted between the 1st & 2nd ring AFAIK.
    M

Shawn Rutledge(e_cloud at yahoo.com)@2003.01.20 11:10:25 +0000:
> Did you find a way to get vgetty to output the caller ID info as soon as
> the modem receives it, or do you have the problem I do with it being
> delayed by one ring?  (It should be displayed after one ring, but instead
> it's displayed after 2 rings.)
> 
> On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 11:53:55AM -0500, Mark Musone wrote:
> > I've got this done already...
> > 
> > I use vgetty, and xosd and xosdsh
> > 
> > It works awesome..i'm going to eventually get it to be a real "mythtv"
> > module.
> > 
> > (this is also my impetus for being able to remotely control the mythtv
> > frontend, because I want
> > To pause TV when the phone rings, and display the caller id)
> > 
> > 
> > -Mark
> > 
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: mythtv-dev-bounces at snowman.net
> > [mailto:mythtv-dev-bounces at snowman.net] On Behalf Of Shawn Rutledge
> > Sent: Saturday, January 18, 2003 2:28 PM
> > To: Development of mythtv
> > Subject: Re: [mythtv] Myth TV onscreen Caller ID
> > 
> > 
> > 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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