Re: Newbie and CID

["johngroats1977" <johngroats1977@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Nice explanation - Thanks Mark,

I'd be interested in finding out more from any tivo users out
there...

Cheers,
J

--- In xap_automation@xxxxxxx, "Mark Harrison (Groups)"
<mph@a...> wrote:
> johngroats1977 wrote:
>
> John,
>
> I don't have a TiVo, so can't help with that bit.
>
> xAP is very much a "building blocks" application.
>
> - On one PC (downstairs in the study, acting as a monitor-less
server),
> I have a Meteor, and the xAP-Meteor application running.
>
> - On another PC (the laptop I'm using to write this message up in
my
> study, no less), I have xAPDesktop which automatically displays an
> overlay of the caller's phone number when the phone rings.
>
> - The fact that the applications conform to the xAP specification
means
> that they know how to talk to each other across a network. Hence
it
> happens "automatically" - the only configuration was to tell
xAPDesktop
> that "phones" was one of the things I was interested in it
popping
up to
> tell me about.
>
> - As I understand things, xAPTiVo runs much the same was as
> "xAPDesktop", in that, given you have a TurboNet, you run
some xAP
> application that makes things happen on the TiVo automatically.
>
> Any TiVo users out there?
>
> M.