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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.
On Jan 29, 2005, at 1:47 PM, James Armstrong wrote:
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.
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.
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 &
That gives me a fairly large yellow pop-up that stays for 5 seconds then disappears when I get an incoming call.
If you're not familiar with Yac, you can find info here: http://www.sunflowerhead.com/software/yac/
Yac is a really simple TCP protocol for caller-id announcements. Just open a connection, send a string like @CALLJohn Doe~(123)555-1234\0, then close the port.
You can find xYac here: http://bah.org/tivo
You can find the xosd package here: http://www.ignavus.net/software.html
I've been using xYac for a long time now (longer than Myth even), and it's worked flawlessly. I use Asterisk to provide the caller-id info from another server where I have a very simple program that sends info in the Yac protocol.
My YacSend program is based on elseed (the TiVo caller-id server). You can get YacSend here:
http://www.thebedells.org/software/yacsend-0.6.0.tar.gz
Best regards, Zac Bedell
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