Caller ID Plugin

[jorm]

if you have any questions feel free to email or instant message me.
I would be glad to help. It is actually not that difficult and you already have all of the tools you need. Try to start off at a simple hello world and learn the basic constructs ( foreach, while, if else etc... ) Then look at the caller id code and send me questions. Hopefully that will get you started.

[gruskada]

groover km - I may be wrong, but I believe that C# and Visual Basic Studio express only compile .NET 2.0 compatible code (GB-PVR is currently running on 1.1, but sub has said that he will probably upgrade to 2.0 for the release after next).

gruskada

[groover km]

gruskada - you are right... I was in 'collector mode' when I got them (ooh! free shiny things!). I have both 1.1 and 2.0 installed, but I have #Develop for 1.1NET.

[soccerdad]

Hi Guys, I got the plugin to work through the MVP with my desktop that does not have a capture card in it. I just have GBPVR in it for testing. I am using the YAC server and all seems to work well.

My main DVR does not have a modem installed in it. I installed the YAC listener on it and it can get remote messages from the YAC server. Unfortunately, I can't seem to get the YAC messages to come up on the DVR computer's GBPVR or the MVP that is fed by it. I added the Caller Id to the config.xml file just like I did on my test machine, but no love. I even tried using the YAC server program on the DVR machine to have it send test messages to GBPVR but it just does not see it. I looked in the logs but don't see anything strange. Is there a specific place in a log to look for clues?

Any ideas will be great. I am looking around to see if I have an old modem card to install in the DVR but I don't think it will help since it can't see the test calls.

UPDATE: I reloaded YAC and the plugin and got it showing up on GBPVR on the DVR box (listener) when I sent a test message from the YAC Server machine. Oddly enough, I had the MVP running while I reinstalled the YAC software and suddenly a test message flashed on the MVP TV screen. Then it went away and I have never seen it again. I then flopped the server/listeners to see if I could send the other way and can see the test messages on the PC screen, but not on GBPVR. In fact now I have lost all GBPVR caller ID screen flashes. I have changed everything back (and even reloaded everything) to how it was when it was working before and I still can't get anything on GBPVR on the PC or the MVP. Something is very touchy..... I think that is one step forward and 2 steps off a cliff!

[Snarky]

For others who can't get the plugin to pop up over video, check the capitalization in your config.xml file. It's "Caller Id", not "Caller ID" in the <VideoPlugin> tag.

That took me a half an hour to figure out, so I thought I should save the rest of you the time.

[smajor]

I saw in an earlier post that a release might be done and posted here. Is the plugin still under development?

[guinness]

Can the caller ID plugin be modified to include support for NCID?
http://ncid.sourceforge.net/

A yac Packet looks like this:

@CALLYAC Test Call~(425) 555-1212

The NCID packet looks like this:

CID:* DATE*04082006*TIME*1245*NMBR*4255551212*MESG*NONE*NAME*TEST CALL*

NCID is a TCP server which needs a TCP client instead of a listener.
NCID Default port is: 3333

Also it would make it easier to use if you activated the "Settings" button for the pluggin to allow for Host IP and Port configuration.