[mythtv] Myth API and Messages

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 04:47:41PM -0600, Matt White wrote:

> I've been following the development of MythTV for a while now, and I'm 
> currently running the CVS (from about Saturday).
> 
> I've had an idea of something that I would like to develop - mainly to
> familiarize myself with the code behind MythTV:
> 
> I'd like to create a "MythVoicemail" module (or something like that). 
> Lately I've also been playing with VOCP (www.vocpsystem.com), which is
> an open-source voicemail/answering machine system based on vgetty.  I'd
> like to create a Myth module to access the messages (listen to/delete 
> voicemails, view callerID log, etc).  That should be straightforward
> enough, but the other thing I'd like to do while I'm at it is have some 
> kind of message pop up on connected frontends (probably depending on a
> preferences setting) showing callerid information on an incoming call.

I don't know anything about VOCP (yet), but I use Asterisk quite a bit:

http://www.asteriskpbx.org/

It has a gateway interface (AGI) that would make it quite straightforward to
tie it into something like MythTV.

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 - mdz