[mythtv-users] cidbcast mythudprelay and caller id on my laptop?

[Dennis Hand]

>I'm currently using caller ID, cidbcast and mythudprelay to put the phone
>caller onto myth's OSD. It works great. What I would like to figure out is
>if anybody knows how to grab this broadcasted info and put it onto my laptop
>or other desktops . I know cidbcast get's the caller ID info and broadcasts
>it on port 6948. mythudprelay then recieves this info and translates it's
>XML to an output XML that myth requires. mythtvosd then recieves this and
>put's it on the screen for myth.

>Since the info is being broadcast there should be a way to grab it and
>display it with xosd on a desktop not currently running myth.

>Any ideas?

Try this out and see if it's what your looking for. 

http://thomas.lea.com/cidsystray.html

Dennis