[mythtv-users] Please recommend hardware for caller id via MythTV

[David Frascone]

Erik Karlin wrote:
> On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 08:05:11AM -0400, David Frascone wrote:
>   
>> Michael Rice wrote:
>>     
>>> On 5/14/07, Jim Shank <jim.shank at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>   
>>>       
>>>> This is great stuff. Thanks. I setup MythNotify but I spend quite a bit of
>>>> time in xine and in the menu's. I was looking for an unconditional caller-id
>>>> program like this. Only one thing, how can you run it all on your mythtv box
>>>> instead of involving your Windows Box in the mess?
>>>>     
>>>>         
>> I was lucky enough to get my hands on a TuxScreen 
>> (http://www.tuxscreen.net/).  I then wrote a caller id program that 
>> connects to the tuxscreen, gets the callerid, looks up the number in our 
>> house's ldap addressbook, and substitutes *our* name for the caller's 
>> name.  Finally, it logs the call, and sends out a NCID request to any 
>> connected clients.
>>
>> Then, I wrote a quick perl NCID client for the myth frontend.
>>
>> I need to clean up all the scripts a bit -- let me know if you want 
>> them, and I'll provide them.
>>     
>
> I have an audrey in a box that I used to use for caller ID. I'd be
> interested in your script and seeing if I can adapt it to run on the
> audrey.
>
>   
I have just cleaned the stuff up a bit, and put it all in 
http://www.frascone.com/tuxcidd-0.1.tgz  It *does* require headers from 
the tuxphone portion of the CVS repo for tuxscreen: (homepage:  
http://www.tuxscreen.net/  cvs info: 
http://sourceforge.net/cvs/?group_id=20228)

Please let me know if you have any comments, suggestions, etc.

-Dave