[mythtv-users] Please recommend hardware for caller id via MythTV
David Frascone
dave at frascone.com
Tue May 15 15:10:31 UTC 2007
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
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