Randall wrote:
I've seen all of the posts on how to integrate Caller ID into the
squeezeboxes, and it seems that people are able to get it working....
IF THEY ARE CODE-EATING COMPUTER GURUS!!
My question is, could there be an easier way?
Do you want to just display the number of an incoming call ? Or would
you want to display a name and perhaps the location and the call log. If
just having the content of the incoming CID data displayed is adequate
then a simple solution is very possible. In the US I know this data
often includes both number and name but in the UK it is number only.
The Meteor/Pegasus in the UK is a much more capable device than a CID
modem in that they support outgoing DTMF and ON|OFF hook reporting (so
you can track all outgoing calls too) and can even dial them
automatically. Indeed there are very few UK capable CID modems. The
application could perhaps support the NetCallerID units in the US with a
direct to SlimServer link very easily. This would literally display the
number (and name if present) on the Slim displays for a few secs when an
incoming call arrived. The difference here is that xAP normally
presents the CID data, the dial capabilities, the DB lookups and call
history as network resources to all xAP aware applications (including
SlimServer via xAP Slim) and this tends to make the concept a little
more complex but very powerful of course. Very useful if you need the
data available realtime in many places - for example CID displays on my
TV / Tivo and all my PC's inc Windows Media Centre and can be announced
using speech synthesis too and even emailed or SMS'd
For a simple approach perhaps some Perl code should be added to
SlimServer to handle the serially attached NetCallerID and modems directly.
K
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