[ale] Need CID popup that works with vgetty

[Geoffrey]

Jim Seymour wrote:
> On Mon, 21 Apr 2003, Geoffrey wrote:
> 
> 
>>I don't use vgetty, but I'll assume that it works just like mgetty since 
>>it's the voice extension of the same.  I actually have mgetty execute a 
>>script when I get a call and the cid is passed to the script.  The 
>>script calls festival so that I have audible caller id.
>>
>>Festival is a text to voice converter, so rather than looking for a 
>>window pop up, I hear the caller id info.
>>
>>You could do the same by taking advantage of the ability to call a 
>>script and have it pop up a tcl window or something.> 
>>
> 
> Hi Geoffrey,
> 	Thanks for your response to my inquiry about a caller id popup 
> that will work with vgetty.  Sorry I am so late coming back to you on 
> this.  My new modem arrived and I have been fighting other problems 
> getting it to work with vgetty.  I am curious about the script you use 
> that captures the caller id information and passes it off to festival.  Is 
> this a script you wrote yourself or did you get it from somewhere else?  
> I know know nothing about writing scripts so any direction you can point 
> me in for help is greatly appreciated.  Again this is a RedHat 7.3 system 
> if that is any help.

I wrote the script myself.  It does a bit more then just announcing the 
caller info.  It has the ability to accept or reject the call.  I put 
this together so that I could stop receiving the unsolicited faxes I'd 
been getting.

It's perl, I've included it below.  I love doing that, because every 
time I do, Fletch teaches me something about Perl. :)  It's not well 
documented, but the changes one might need to make to make use of it are 
pretty straightforward.  Look for the @acceptNumberList and 
@acceptNameList arrays.  I've replaced my accept values with a couple of 
dummies so that you might get an idea of how it works.

#!/usr/bin/perl

# use diagnostics;
use strict;

# Put accepted numbers in this array

my @acceptNumberList = ( "5551234311", "5552331234);

# Put accepted names in this array

my @acceptNameList = ( "Publishers Clearing House", "President Bush");
my $foo;

# Usage callerid.pl from_tty calling_number name dist_ring_id called_no;

sub rejected {

     my ($na, $nu) = @_;
     print FH "REJECT: \"$na\" from: <$nu>\n";
     $na = "Call rejected from $na";
     `su esoteric -c "/home/esoteric/shl/text2talk $na&"`;

     close(FH);
     exit 1;
}
sub accepted {

     my ($na, $nu) = @_;
     print FH "Accept: \"$na\" from: <$nu>\n";
     $na = "Call accepted from $na";
     `su esoteric -c "/home/esoteric/shl/text2talk $na&"`;

     close(FH);
     exit 0;
}

open(FH, ">> /home/esoteric/memo/callerid.lst");

my ($tty, $num, $name, $dist_ring, $called_no);

($tty, $num, $name, $dist_ring, $called_no) = @ARGV;
printf FH scalar(localtime()) . " : ";

# Accept all..
# accepted("$name", $num);

foreach $foo (@acceptNumberList) {

     $num =~ /^$foo/ && accepted("$name", $num);
}

foreach $foo (@acceptNameList) {

     $name =~ /^$foo/ && accepted("$name", $num);
}

rejected($name, $num);

-- 
Until later: Geoffrey		esoteric at 3times25.net

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