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RE: Caller ID file t HomeVision


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  • Subject: RE: Caller ID file t HomeVision
  • From: Mike Griffiths <mike@xxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2001 22:47:48 +0100
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Brilliant

That’s sound interesting Graham

And a lot of hard work

I’d love a copy when finished

 

Mike

 

Sent from Home

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Graham Howe [mailto:graham@xxxxxxx]
Sent: Wed 18 Jul 01 16:22
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx Subject: [ukha_d] Caller ID file t HomeVision

 

Don't know if anyone else is interested (other than Mike) but I have now managed t get a combination of macro and batch file t extract the contents of the call file produced by Capitel and display it on a custom video screen in HomeVision. There were a couple of snags with it which are worth mentioning as this technique can be applied for any text file.

 

The aim was to have a macro I could assign t an IR command so that when the phone rang I could press a button on the remote and the caller Id info would appear on the TV/Projector screen. I would be using the custom video screens in HomeVision combined with it's ability t read a text file into one of these screens.

 

1. HomeVison does not seem able t read the text file from any location other than it's own folder (usually c:\program files\homevision\).

2. To resolve point 1 I simply changed Capitel (ISDN Caller ID app) t place it's call file into the HomeVision directory. However HomeVision still didn't seem t like this as it thought the file as in use.

3. To resolve 2 I wrote a little batch file t copy the Capitel calls file to the HomeVision directory. I als included a line in the batch file t copy a blank file onto the Capitel one so that calls were erased once passed t HomeVision. I then called this batch file as the first line in the macro, it didn't run.

4. To resolve 3 I checked that the batch file worked on it's own, it did. I swore a lot, that didn't help. I posted a message to the HV mailing list, one of the responses suggested I use the short DOS format file path in calling the batch file. This made no sense as the file was already in the HomeVision directory, but of course it worked!

5. I created a macro that called the batch file, it copied the text files across, the macro then read the calls file into custom screen 100 and then displayed that screen. This works if run twice, I have no idea why!

6. I finally created another macro that calls the previous one twice and everything is fine. When the phone rings, I can run the macro (simulating an IR command) and the caller ID appears on the screen. I will now need t build on the macro a little bit so that it switches the TV/Projector to the appropriate channel to display the information, and will have another macro triggered by another IR command that will switch the display back. There will probably be different versions of the macros that will be called depending upon the source being viewed. So for example if I am watching a DVD then the macro will first send a pause command to the DVD and then switch the video source for the amp (that feeds the projector), the return macro will switch the amp source back to DVD then start the DVD playing again.

 

Feel free t ask any questions, once all the IR commands are completed and everyting is working, I will post script from the schedule.

 

Regards

 

Graham




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