On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 23:31:37 -0500, Zachary Bedell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > 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 > > ====================================================== > Brought to you by MacOS, running on host Ringo > Running for: 4 days, 4 hours, 32 minutes > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (Darwin) > > iEYEARECAAYFAkH9tLAACgkQq+EtLVpY/F7yDACgn2cFFcjyj8fmZTyCDEhL/OdF > KkUAoKfV5IRszGgAhPXbYBLAjQMI3GA8 > =MoPl > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > _______________________________________________ > mythtv-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > > >
I like this method of displaying caller id info a lot and it's almost working wonderfully for me. As long as I'm not actually watching a recorded show in myth everything appears to work just great. Unfortunately, if I happen to be watching a recording when xyac receives an event my screen goes black except for the yac text on the screen. The text appears to be transparent as I can see the recording through the 'stencil' of the text, but the rest of the screen is black. After the yac timeout expires the text disappears and I'm left with a black screen. In order to see my recording again I have to stop/pause/ff/rew/play. I'm not sure if it matters, but I'm using the tv-out of a pvr-350. Come to think of it, I need to test this on my remote frontend which is displaying on a monitor using an nvidia card and see what that does. In the meantime, anyone know if/why xyac might have trouble with the pvr-350 tv-out? Brad
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