[mythtv-users] vonage caller id

[James Armstrong]

Zachary Bedell wrote:

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> First of all, if I can put in my "Me Too!" for the Vonage caller-id 
> sniffer.  That sounds like a useful little bit of code.  I'd be happy 
> to host the script on my site if it doesn't have anywhere else to live.
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> On Jan 29, 2005, at 1:47 PM, James Armstrong wrote:
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>> I have the same problem with Mythnotify, it does not display while 
>> not watching tv. I have been thinking about trying to write something 
>> in the frontend that will just display a popup qt box that will do 
>> the same while in the menus.
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> I've had good luck using xYac (which uses XOsd) to handle caller-id 
> pop-ups.  It displays over anything in X including videos in MPlayer, 
> DVDs in Ogle, and all the various Myth plugins.
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> In my Myth startup script, I have the following line right before the 
> call to Mythfrontend:
> xyac -c yellow -f -adobe-utopia-bold-r-normal--*-400-*-*-*-*-* -s 5 &
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Sounds good. I don't like not having the callerid display when not 
watching recordings. Maybe we can modify mythfrontend to have an option 
to use XOsd also along with the current osd support. I will get this 
installed and modify the script to send to xYac also.

- James