Application for obtaining caller ID from a hacked BT Caller Display 50 (or similar)

["Martyn Wendon" <mailing.lists@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi All,

I've been playing with various hacked Caller ID boxes for a while now with
a
view to using them as a cheap way of getting CID information onto my xAP
network (I effectively have 4 lines here, 2 real & 2 via distinctive
ringing).

As others have found, Patrick's meteor connector does work, but I really
wanted a way to have all 4 of my boxes under one application.

So I've knocked up a simple vb.net xAP Caller ID application (at
http://www.runtothehills.net/xAPCallerID.zip)
using Stuart's Framework which
seems to work ok.

Features:

Up to 4 CID boxes supported  (on individual comm ports)
Minimize to system task tray
MSN Messenger style pop-up on incoming call
Generates cid.incoming schema messages

Installation / Configuration:

Unzip it wherever you like
Open "xAP Caller ID.exe.config" in a text editor and change the
options to
suit (by default it is configured for one CID box on comm port 1 named
"Home")


I hasten to add that I'm not a Windows coder by any stretch of the
imagination (my strengths are in perl / mysql / html) and I haven't done
any
vb stuff for about 7 years, so there may well be glaring errors, bugs,
rubbish code structure, etc, etc.

However, it does seem to work ok (for me anyway) and has been stable on an
AMD1100 box running Windows XP for the past few days.

It's also being constantly revised and changed as I think of better ways to
do things and add other features, so I'll post here when I release a newer
version.

Hope that others may find it useful!


Martyn

----- Original Message -----
From: "Andrew Kilgore" <andrew.kilgore@xxxxxxx>
To: <xap_automation@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, December 05, 2005 11:30 PM
Subject: [xap_automation] Application for obtaining caller ID from hacked
box...? [html-removed]


> Hi all,
>
> I've finally got round to hacking one of the several caller ID units I
got
> of eBay.
> (Same as the smaller unit here: http://tinyurl.com/7pp2q)
>
> So, I've verified that it works watching the call data using RealTerm.
> Next step is to find a xAPplication that will convert it into a caller
ID
> message.
> I know there are quite a few out there but I'm not sure what baud etc.
> they
> use to connect to the COM port.
> (I tried Patrick's Meteor Caller ID utility on the off-chance but no
joy)
>
> I need 1200 baud.
> Is there an application out there that will allow me to configure the
baud
> etc. of the COM port connection...?
>
> Many thanks,
> Andy.
>