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jzigmyth, 06/13/2010 03:28 pm


Caller ID displayed on you LinHES screen

This wiki entry is in progress. I'll delete this line when it's done. Thanks for waiting.

In order to get your TV to display caller ID info while watching MythTV, you need to install NCID (network caller ID). NCID consists of the ncid server daemon (ncidd) and the ncid client program (ncid). The modem connects to the server and it makes the caller ID info available to all the clients on the network.

Requirements:

1) Caller ID capable modem. This can be an external serial modem, external USB modem or internal modem, but it must have caller ID capabilities. USB and internal modems may need other drivers installed to work. NCID can also get Caller ID info from a voip system or a YAC server.

2) NCID (network caller ID) package consisting of the ncid server daemon (ncidd) and the ncid client program (ncid)

This article will focus on installing the server and the client on your stand alone LinHES 6.02 box using an external serial modem.

General outline:

install make (didn't come with R6.02)
get NCID. Latest version as of 4-3-10 is 0.76
make package
make package-install
edit the configuration files for ncidd and ncid
install ncidd as a service
install ncid as a service
in that order

Detailed outline:

At the time of this writing, LinHES does not have the make utilty installed by default, so we start by installing make.

All as root:
pacman -S make

Now get the NCID source:

cd /root
mkdir ncidsrc
cd ncidsrc
wget http://sourceforge.net/projects/ncid/files/ncid/0.76/ncid-0.76-src.tar.gz/download
tar xvzf ncid-0.76-src.tar.gz

Now make and install NCID:

cd ncid
make package
make package-install