[mythtv-users] vonage caller id

[Zachary Bedell]

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First of all, if I can put in my "Me Too!" for the Vonage caller-id 
sniffer.  That sounds like a useful little bit of code.  I'd be happy 
to host the script on my site if it doesn't have anywhere else to live.

On Jan 29, 2005, at 1:47 PM, James Armstrong wrote:
> I have the same problem with Mythnotify, it does not display while not 
> watching tv. I have been thinking about trying to write something in 
> the frontend that will just display a popup qt box that will do the 
> same while in the menus.

I've had good luck using xYac (which uses XOsd) to handle caller-id 
pop-ups.  It displays over anything in X including videos in MPlayer, 
DVDs in Ogle, and all the various Myth plugins.

In my Myth startup script, I have the following line right before the 
call to Mythfrontend:
xyac -c yellow -f -adobe-utopia-bold-r-normal--*-400-*-*-*-*-* -s 5 &

That gives me a fairly large yellow pop-up that stays for 5 seconds 
then disappears when I get an incoming call.

If you're not familiar with Yac, you can find info here:
http://www.sunflowerhead.com/software/yac/

Yac is a really simple TCP protocol for caller-id announcements.  Just 
open a connection, send a string like @CALLJohn Doe~(123)555-1234\0, 
then close the port.

You can find xYac here:
http://bah.org/tivo

You can find the xosd package here:
http://www.ignavus.net/software.html

I've been using xYac for a long time now (longer than Myth even), and 
it's worked flawlessly.  I use Asterisk to provide the caller-id info 
from another server where I have a very simple program that sends info 
in the Yac protocol.

My YacSend program is based on elseed (the TiVo caller-id server).  You 
can get YacSend here:
http://www.thebedells.org/software/yacsend-0.6.0.tar.gz

Best regards,
Zac Bedell

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