[mythtv-users] Automatically pausing playback

[Chris Gentle]

I have a little home-grown application that I use to pop up caller id
information on my mythtv machine whenever a phone call comes into my
asterisk box.  I'm basically broadcasting a UDP packet with the caller id
information from the asterisk machine and have a listener running on my
mythtv box.  When it receives the packet it pops up a dialog showing who is
calling.  Pretty simple.  However, I would like to automatically pause the
mythtv playback when the caller id event arrives.  Is there a simple way to
do that?  I thought maybe I could fake an event with lirc and having it send
a Pause.  However, after digging through the man pages of the lirc stuff it
wasn't as obvious as I thought.  Any ideas on how to do this?  Or is there
something easier that I've completely missed?

-- 
Chris
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