[mythtv-users] vonage caller id

[James Armstrong]

Maverick wrote:

>>I don't know how many people here are using Vonage for phone service. I
>>have a perl script I hacked up that monitors the sip traffic to the
>>vonage phone and alerts my mythfrontend via mythnotify to the osd when
>>there is an incoming call. It shows the caller name and number. This can
>>be used if you are running a linux firewall and the vonage phone
>>traffice passes through it.
>>    
>>
>
>Love my vonage, and for that functionality, I'd consider configuring
>my myth box with a second nic and route the vonage through it if I
>have too! Like the rest, I'm not currently using a linux firewall. :(
>
>How about doing this with tcpdump from the myth box itself? My myth
>box actually shares a 10base hub w/ the vonage box, so should be no
>reason it can't sniff out the sip...
>
>-Kenneth
>  
>
If your nic can hear the vonage traffic then it should work. The script 
uses pcap to tap into the same functions that tcpdump uses.

- James