[mythtv-users] Please recommend hardware for caller id via MythTV

Erik Karlin e_karlin at yahoo.com
Tue May 15 14:18:53 UTC 2007


On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 08:05:11AM -0400, David Frascone wrote:
> 
> Michael Rice wrote:
> > On 5/14/07, Jim Shank <jim.shank at gmail.com> wrote:
> >   
> >> This is great stuff. Thanks. I setup MythNotify but I spend quite a bit of
> >> time in xine and in the menu's. I was looking for an unconditional caller-id
> >> program like this. Only one thing, how can you run it all on your mythtv box
> >> instead of involving your Windows Box in the mess?
> >>     
> I was lucky enough to get my hands on a TuxScreen 
> (http://www.tuxscreen.net/).  I then wrote a caller id program that 
> connects to the tuxscreen, gets the callerid, looks up the number in our 
> house's ldap addressbook, and substitutes *our* name for the caller's 
> name.  Finally, it logs the call, and sends out a NCID request to any 
> connected clients.
> 
> Then, I wrote a quick perl NCID client for the myth frontend.
> 
> I need to clean up all the scripts a bit -- let me know if you want 
> them, and I'll provide them.

I have an audrey in a box that I used to use for caller ID. I'd be
interested in your script and seeing if I can adapt it to run on the
audrey.

> 
> My only complaint is that the callerid is usually truncated . . . as are 
> a lot of the menus . . I need to play with font settings ;)
> 
> -Dave


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