[OT] Re: [mythtv-users] MythNotify suggestions

Robert Johnston anaerin at gmail.com
Wed Sep 7 04:22:00 UTC 2005


For the UK'ers, I know of only two Modems that do CallerID properly.

The Pace 56 Voice, and the Pace Solo. And considering Pace went out of
business a long while ago, I'd suggest looking on eBay (Or similar).

On 06/09/05, Kim Wall <kim at ductilebiscuit.net> wrote:
> Mike wrote:
> > geek factor is unlimited once you have something you can
> > already get at. That is why I would rather have something with unlimited
> > access for $100 rather than a device that only does what somebody else
> > told it to do. (my main reason for having mythtv in the first place)
> 
> FWIW (most likely for any brits reading, as modems that understand BT
> caller ID are somewhat rare), I'm doing caller ID using a hacked BT CD50
> box that I got for a fiver on ebay...  see:
> http://www.eatworms.org.uk/ha/callerid.php
> 
> I had to write my own code[1] to decode the CID data and do lookups
> against a list of known numbers, but the relevant specs are downloadable
> from BT, and shouldn't pose too much of a challenge to a competent
> programmer.
> 
> 
> kim.
> 
> [1] Sadly my CID code is part of a much larger piece of home automation
> software, to which I've hacked on a call to mythtvosd, so isn't a
> stand-alone app.
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