Even more Meteor !!

["Stuart Booth" <stuart@xxxxxxx>]

<grin>

The Meteor unit seems very popular at the moment judging by the 
posts. Brian and Justin are to blame for my own interest.

I think I've just finished a new widget that understands what the 
Meteor box is telling the computer. It then fires off a number of 
events with all the information about the incoming (and outgoing) 
call that it can muster. It's up to a client application to deal with it
as it will.

I've knocked it up over the last couple of weekends as an 
exercise in learning C#, .net and Microsoft's VisualStudio.net. As 
it's my very first .net application ("hello, world" applications
apart) 
there are bound to be things I haven't done quite right but it's been 
fun none-the-less and appears to work.

I have previously mentioned the lack of a mobile phone which has 
held back testing of incoming calls. Today I banged together a little 
'telephone simulator' that pretends to be a Meteor box and feeds 
my Meteor handling code what I think are identical packets of 
information.

This telephone simulator lets me fake up incoming and outgoing 
calls. I can fake withheld numbers, international calls, no CID info 
at all, even the unused calling line name information.

Turn off the simulator and things reverts back to talking to the 
Meteor box. It even has some cool phone noises that it uses 
(dialtone's, rings and button presses) for extra added effect. The 
added advantage of this is that it will make demoing *very* easy. I 
can run all my software components in an environment that does 
not, nor cannot have a Meteor unit to hand.

Stage 1 of my "CallerID.net" vision complete (ish) !

Some of you will be aware of PathwayData's "ActiveCID" control.
Well, yes, my very own "MeteorCID.net" tries to do exactly the
same thing. Adrian at Pathway tells me he has produced a 
"special" version for those wanting to use it in free s/w for
other 
members of UKHA. Sadly I didn't realise this at the time I was 
looking for a means to interface with the Meteor box. If truth be 
known I didn't even bother to ask if he had a version aimed at this 
market rather than, say, the professional software house. I'll 
always try and reuse code if I can and ActiveCID would have 
done perfectly (not to mention being a thoroughly tested and 
mature product unlike my nobby effort at the moment!). ;-)

Anyway, if you've read this far, the last thing to mention is that I 
hope to whack it onto a web page soon in case anybody 
happens to be curious enough to want to give it a go.

E&OE,

Stuart

-- 
Stuart Booth
Somewhere in Buckinghamshire, England, UK

stuart@xxxxxxx / stuart@xxxxxxx

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