Caller id on the TiVo
Wouldn’t it be nice if your TiVo could display caller id information so that when the phone rings, you know whether it’s worth getting up and interrupting 24 or the Daily Show?
It’s possible. There are two basic approaches:
- Here’s how I got caller id on my TiVo using a Windows caller id program called YAC (you must have a caller-id capable modem in your Windows machine). There are “listeners” available for TiVo Series 1 and 2, so that your TiVo(s) get notified about calls over TCP/IP over your network.
- Alternatively if you want to do the caller id with the TiVo modem instead of using a YAC (Windows) server, check out Elseed.
Personally, I took approach #1, because I also wanted to be able to see caller id on all of my various PC’s and YAC’s listener model is flexible enough to handle that (you can configure up to 10 listeners on your network).
April 24th, 2005 at 9:56 pm |
This is a pretty common hack for hacked Series 1 Tivos, I believe, and a feature that Tivo has consistantly asked users if they want when they do user surveys. I haven’t seen anyone do one for HME yet, though.
April 25th, 2005 at 3:58 pm |
So now I have to go -back- to having a modem in my computer? Ugh.
April 27th, 2005 at 5:05 am |
This is a great hack. I’ve always wanted to be able to do this! Nice find!