RE: Meteor

[justin@xxxxxxx]

Quoting "BUTLER, Tony, FM" <roaming@xxxxxxx>:

>How do I 'trap' the ringing to extract the phone no and is there
something

I suspect with Patrick's plugin, when there is a call the status of the
number 
virtual device changes, therefore an event could be fired on this occuring
and 
the number extracted using hs.devicestring("virtual device")?.
I've not tried 
it though so you would have to ask him.

> is there something
> out there I can use to look up names either in outlook or (sigh) in
yet
> another separate address book?

That's partly why I chose to write my own plugin. Having numbers looked up
in 
the HSP address book is a real boon. I believe there is a script around
that 
will extract details from Outlook and add them to the HSP phonebook.
However, I can appreciate that new users of HomeSeer have to pay extra $
for 
HSP, so I can see why a plugin that doesn't use it would be attractive.
Horses 
for courses I suppose!

> Stage after that is getting Homeseer to push the info out a socket to
be
> treceived by a listener on my TiVo.
> I don't think VBA can talk TCP can it - has someone written
something
> already to do this kinda thing?  Can HS do it natively?
> I could write a separate .Net app or something to just sit and wait
for
> calls and push the info out, but I think it would be nice to integrate
with
> HS as I might want to do other things when the phone rings
too.....

If this TCL code:

#### put your Tivo's IP address below and run on a remote host 
set s [socket 192.168.1.XXX 10629] 
puts $s "Test Message" 
close $s 
####

means one just needs to open a socket to the Tivo client I mentioned
yesterday 
and send a string, it shouldn't be too difficult to write somthing using
windows sockets to send the info to the Tivo.
In fact, I have some client / server code I have been messing around with
(for 
touchscreen control of HS). I will try it out later with the Tivo
client.
If it works as I hope, I will compile an .exe which will work along the
same 
lines as my existing TivOSD app.
This could be done as a HS plugin but I feel that would be restrictive. A
standalone application which takes a string on the command line and sends
it to 
the Tivo I feel would be far more versitile and still very simple to use
with 
HS.
The app wouldn't have to sit & wait rather just be executed when a
specific 
event occurs - again, much easier with HSP (and a modem) as you will have:
on 
first ring, on caller id, on every ring, type events as well as the callers
name & number available as global variables.

Justin.

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