I found a way to do it. Might not be the most efficient but it works.<br>I run this on my laptop.<br>ngrep '' udp port 6948|osd_cat -p middle -c yellow -f -adobe-helvetica-bold-*-*-*-34-*-*-*-*-*-*-*<br><br>Whoo hoo it works.
<br>The only thing left to do is fire up sed and strip out all the xml stuff.<br><br><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 11/3/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">David Won</b> <<a href="mailto:daveshome@gmail.com">daveshome@gmail.com
</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Ick. It's a windows program.<br>I'm on a new track now.<br>Using netcat I can do this.
<br>netcat listen for UDP on port 6948.<br><br>nc -l -u -p 6948<br><?xml version="1.0"?><br><mythnotify version="1"><container name="notify_cid_info"><textarea name="notify_cid_line"><value>LINE #1</value></textarea><textarea name="notify_cid_name"><value>NAME: JOE SCHMOE</value></textarea><textarea name="notify_cid_num"><value>NUM : (301) 555-1212</value></textarea><textarea name="notify_cid_dt"><value>DATE: 11/3 TIME: 10:8</value></textarea></container></mythnotify>
<br><br>Spits out the XML that is broadcast. Now all I have to do is strip out the name and number and send it to osd right. Nope..... It only works for the first connection. I have to restart netcat after each time.<br>
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>From the man page<br>"<b>-u</b> Use UDP instead of TCP. On most platforms, <b>nc</b> will behave as if<br><pre> a connection is established until it receives an ICMP packet<br> indicating that there is no program listening to what it sends."
<br><br><br><br></pre>Now I have to figure out a way for netcat to start listening again.<br>getting there slowly but surely.<br><br>Dave<br><br><br><div><div><span class="e" id="q_10756b4371415654_1"><span class="gmail_quote">
On 11/3/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Dennis Hand
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<div><span class="e" id="q_10756b4371415654_3">>I'm currently using caller ID, cidbcast and mythudprelay to put the phone
<br>>caller onto myth's OSD. It works great. What I would like to figure out is<br>>if anybody knows how to grab this broadcasted info and put it onto my laptop<br>>or other desktops . I know cidbcast get's the caller ID info and broadcasts
<br>>it on port 6948. mythudprelay then recieves this info and translates it's<br>>XML to an output XML that myth requires. mythtvosd then recieves this and<br>>put's it on the screen for myth.<br><br>>Since the info is being broadcast there should be a way to grab it and
<br>>display it with xosd on a desktop not currently running myth.<br><br>>Any ideas?<br><br>Try this out and see if it's what your looking for.<br><br><a href="http://thomas.lea.com/cidsystray.html" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
http://thomas.lea.com/cidsystray.html
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