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November 23, 2003
Caller ID Project
I've hooked up a modem to my linux server, using the phone cable which had already been run across the house for when the Tivo used it -- Apparently, this phone cord had never been removed. Cool. :-)
So I hooked up the modem, wrote (hopefully) to flash the commands that needed to be there for the modem to write the CID info out to the serial port... I've written a short Perl script to capture the data and write it to a database.
The perl script works fine with my test data, captured earlier in the day when various people called.
I then tried calling the house. The cordless sees the caller id info, but the perl script does not. :-( I don't know why but I'm not going to deal with it now. Oh well. I'll spend some time tomorrow calling the house, checking what the script is doing and why. Right now it's time for sleep.
If you want the app (and database schema) it'll be available at some point. I'll have to figure out where to store the config data, whether to start it from rc scripts, etc. at some point.
Posted by aland at November 23, 2003 12:19 AM
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First round on the App is done. http://www.aland.us/software/CallerID/ has some details & a download link.
Posted by: Alan at November 23, 2003 6:17 PM