Re: [mythtv-users] OT: Phone Concentrator(?)
I have been running asterisk for over a year now...some things I have learned... The X100P cards are WAY more trouble than they are worth if you are going to use to for more than CallerID. You will never get the echo out. If you want to answer the phone (via SIP or Myth) or you want to get into VoIP in general, get something with an FXO port. I recommend the Sipura SPA-3000. It runs $99 and has 2 FXS (to run a normal phones) and one FXO port. The FXO port you can configure to ring the myth box directly with no Asterisk involved. It will pass all the CallerID info. http://www.sipura.com/products/spa3000.htm ...you configure the thing with a web browser...very nice. Then if you really want to go nuts you can buy a 2 line phone (I like the Panasonic expandable wireless phones) plugging both lines into the FXS ports on the Sipura and setup a dialing plan to dial out at 2 or 3 cents a minute nearly world wide...or have an incoming 877 number at the same rate. All the info is in here somewhere: http://www.voip-info.org/ Bottom line: The easiest way to get started in my opinion is with something like Sipura box, just make sure it has an FXO port to ring the Myth Box up. Good luck, ToddD - Original Message - From: Jesse Guardiani [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Brad Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Discussion about mythtv mythtv-users@mythtv.org Sent: Friday, September 30, 2005 2:08 PM Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] OT: Phone Concentrator(?) Brad Benson wrote: On 9/30/05, *Jesse Guardiani* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It would be nice if messages from mythosd would show up when you're looking at the menus/mythmusic/mythweather/etc too. I'm not ALWAYS watching TV, but I usually have myth ON in some form or fashion. Look into YAC and xYAC. If you search the archives for yac you should turn up a thread related to that. At least I remember seeing one here a while back. xYAC allows you to popup messages and callerid info using X and they display over anything - Myth menus, xine, mplayer, ogle, whatever. I was looking into doing this myself, but I just haven't picked up a modem with callerid yet. If you want to learn asterisk, X100P cards go for $15 on ebay. That's what I use. Definitely has a learning curve, but you can do a heck of a lot more than callerid with asterisk. Thanks for the info. I'll look into it. -- Jesse Guardiani Programmer/Sys Admin [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] OT: Phone Concentrator(?)
On Fri, 30 Sep 2005, Jon Whitear wrote: The cooleset thing is when the phone rings, the caller ID comes up on the telly! Jon, How are you making this happen? Via MythNotify and a modem in your Myth backend? Via Asterisk? (of so, can you be more specific?) thanks, mark ps -- as a sidebar, which VOIP providers are you utilizing? You can answer off-list if you'd like. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] OT: Phone Concentrator(?)
How are you making this happen? Via MythNotify and a modem in your Myth backend? Via Asterisk? (of so, can you be more specific?) I don't know about him, but I use Asterisk and mythtvosd to send callerid info to my main mythfronted. I haven't bothered broadcasting it to all of the frontends since I usually only infront of that particular one. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] OT: Phone Concentrator(?)
On 9/30/05, Greg Estabrooks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How are you making this happen? Via MythNotify and a modem in your Myth backend? Via Asterisk? (of so, can you be more specific?) there was a pretty big discussion about getting caller id info in OSD a while ago: http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/engine?list=mythtvdo=search_resultssearch_forum=forum_1search_string=vonage+caller+idsearch_type=AND i think Vonage was the main service ppl were discussing. somebody had a perl script i believe that grabbed the broadcast and sent it to the OSD. i haven't taken the time to try it yet but others said it was working. ac ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] OT: Phone Concentrator(?)
Andrew Close wrote: On 9/30/05, Greg Estabrooks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How are you making this happen? Via MythNotify and a modem in your Myth backend? Via Asterisk? (of so, can you be more specific?) there was a pretty big discussion about getting caller id info in OSD a while ago: http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/engine?list=mythtvdo=search_resultssearch_forum=forum_1search_string=vonage+caller+idsearch_type=AND i think Vonage was the main service ppl were discussing. somebody had a perl script i believe that grabbed the broadcast and sent it to the OSD. i haven't taken the time to try it yet but others said it was working. It would be nice if messages from mythosd would show up when you're looking at the menus/mythmusic/mythweather/etc too. I'm not ALWAYS watching TV, but I usually have myth ON in some form or fashion. -- Jesse Guardiani Programmer/Sys Admin [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] OT: Phone Concentrator(?)
On 9/30/05, Jesse Guardiani [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It would be nice if messages from mythosd would show up when you'relooking at the menus/mythmusic/mythweather/etc too. I'm not ALWAYSwatching TV, but I usually have myth ON in some form or fashion. Look into YAC and xYAC. If you search the archives for yac you should turn up a thread related to that. At least I remember seeing one here a while back. xYAC allows you to popup messages and callerid info using X and they display over anything - Myth menus, xine, mplayer, ogle, whatever. I was looking into doing this myself, but I just haven't picked up a modem with callerid yet. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] OT: Phone Concentrator(?)
Brad Benson wrote: On 9/30/05, *Jesse Guardiani* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It would be nice if messages from mythosd would show up when you're looking at the menus/mythmusic/mythweather/etc too. I'm not ALWAYS watching TV, but I usually have myth ON in some form or fashion. Look into YAC and xYAC. If you search the archives for yac you should turn up a thread related to that. At least I remember seeing one here a while back. xYAC allows you to popup messages and callerid info using X and they display over anything - Myth menus, xine, mplayer, ogle, whatever. I was looking into doing this myself, but I just haven't picked up a modem with callerid yet. If you want to learn asterisk, X100P cards go for $15 on ebay. That's what I use. Definitely has a learning curve, but you can do a heck of a lot more than callerid with asterisk. Thanks for the info. I'll look into it. -- Jesse Guardiani Programmer/Sys Admin [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] OT: Phone Concentrator(?)
bw with MythPhone and reading up on Vonnage and SunRocket, etc when bw it occurred to me that it would be really nice to have some sort bw of telecom concentrator. Where the regular house phones all bw belong to a central computer that can receive calls from and send bw calls out through the various available devices; be it standard bw landline, internet phone or mobil phones attached via USB port. The standard answer is a well-known free Linux PBX package called Asterisk. Has anyone tried running Myth and Asterisk on the same box? (It's easy to think of all kinds of dandy other things for a computer to do once you commit to having it turned on all the time.) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] (WJCarpenter)PGP 0x91865119 38 95 1B 69 C9 C6 3D 2573 46 32 04 69 D6 ED F3 ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] OT: Phone Concentrator(?)
The standard answer is a well-known free Linux PBX package called Asterisk. Has anyone tried running Myth and Asterisk on the same box? (It's easy to think of all kinds of dandy other things for a computer to do once you commit to having it turned on all the time.) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] (WJCarpenter)PGP 0x91865119 38 95 1B 69 C9 C6 3D 2573 46 32 04 69 D6 ED F3 If you have a search on the list, I think you'll find quite a few people using asterisk and myth. I have both running on my backend server, and it works very well. I have a PSTN line coming in, and various VOIP services. Phones are Cisco 7900 series IP phones. The dialplan makes call routing invisible to the user e.g. if I dial a local number, asterisk routes it over the PSTN, but if I dial an international number, it goes out via a VOIP service. The cooleset thing is when the phone rings, the caller ID comes up on the telly! Cheers, Jon ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
