[mythtv-users] vonage caller id

[ZacList]

On Nov 29, 2005, at 1:19 PM, Matt wrote:
> Digging through some old e-mails.  I've got vonage and I think I'm
> going to revive an old PII box as an IPCop firewall.  Does this script
> work with IPCop?

I've got the Vonage sniffer script running on my IPCop box, but it  
wasn't especially easy to setup.

IPCop's Perl installation is lacking a bunch of the pre-req's for the  
Vonage script.  It doesn't have CPAN or a compiler, so installing  
things was a lot of manual labor -- compile something on another  
Linux box, copy it over, run the script, see what was missing,  
compile *that*, rinse, repeat....

That said, now that it's working, I've found it very nice & very  
stable.  I modified the script to call elseed, so my TiVo, Myth box,  
and assorted desktops and laptops all get the pop-up.  I've had the  
script running for about three weeks now without the slightest problem.

I also found that the sniffer script gets call-waiting notifications  
even with call-waiting disabled.  I personally can't stand the beep- 
kerthump fo a call-waiting-plus-caller-id tone, and I hate putting  
people on hold.  But knowing *who* called is rather nifty.  There's  
no tone or ring or anything, but when someone else calls when I'm on  
the phone, all the various Yac enabled devices in the house still get  
the message.

-Zac Bedell