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rozman at fri

Feb 3, 2005, 1:49 AM

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Re: vonage caller id [In reply to]

Please keep us posted. I'm interested...

Regards,

Rob.

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Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] vonage caller id

> "A MythAutomation module or something that would let you control your
lighting, voice mail, temperature, etc. all from Myth."
>
> I had considered writing something like this before I started using
MythTV, but as I started using MythTV, I just feel it would interrupt
watching shows if in the middle of a show you wanted to kick off some X10 or
other event -- you'd have to first pause it, or map a set of keys on the
remote to do this blind -- unless you had a smart remote with an LCD
display.
>
> Alternatively, I decided to leave MythTV alone and write a X Windows
application to do home automation interface, log printouts, anouncements /
(virtual) alarm clock / answering system interface / thermostat and external
temperature readout / controls to flip through security camera captured
events -- which would be displayed out a television port and in my case
modulated onto the antenna cable so I could see/use the app/interface from
any television in the home.
>
> I'm using a Matrox G400 dual head card to produce the NTSC signal, but
this could be done with any free VGA port with a scan converter.
>
> If you are interested, let me know, and I will keep you informed of my
progress. Otherwise, I'll just post it on my website when I'm finished for
those that stumble upon my site. ;)
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Michael Segulja <msegulja [at] lmdcs>
> Date: Sunday, January 30, 2005 0:45 am
> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] vonage caller id
>
> > What hardware are you using with Asterisk? I know this is getting
> > way
> > off topic, but I checked out Asterisk a few months ago after
> > reading
> > about it in Linux Magazine. I couldn't really figure out if it's
> > possible to use Asterisk with a regular phone or if it requires a
> > board
> > for the computer and a phone designed for a PBX or digital phone
> > system
> > or something. I guess I'm confused on how you make the connection
> > between your phone and Asterisk. I really like the idea of the
> > PBX and
> > voice mail because I run a home based business, plus I've been
> > running
> > Automated Living's HAL (automatedliving.com) for home automation,
> > and
> > have recently started looking into MisterHouse because I'm tired
> > of
> > having to pay for it every time they release an update. I use
> > Vonage as
> > well, but use the HAL software for voice mail because of the voice
> > control. I really love the call announcement. I would prefer to
> > use
> > open source wherever possible and not have to run a Windows
> > machine just
> > for HAL. It would be super cool to see some sort of control for
> > something like MisterHouse through Myth. A MythAutomation module
> > or
> > something that would let you control your lighting, voice mail,
> > temperature, etc. all from Myth.
> >
> > Anyway, just some thoughts. I'm unfortunately about as far from a
> > programmer as one could get, otherwise I'd see what I could do.
> > That's
> > one of the reason's MisterHouse is really intimidating because of
> > all
> > the Perl code that seems to be involved.
> >
> > Michael
> >
> > Robert Rozman wrote:
> >
> > >----- Original Message -----
> > >From: "John Williams" <williamsbyron [at] gmail>
> > >To: "Discussion about mythtv" <mythtv-users [at] mythtv>
> > >Sent: Saturday, January 29, 2005 4:50 PM
> > >Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] vonage caller id
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >>>Asterisk is
> > >>>open source PBX, that can be easily connected to outside
> > scripts, that
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >can
> > >
> > >
> > >>>then do mythnotifies .....Misterhouse that will send notifies
> > on more
> > >>>important events....
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>So you have a PBX and a home automation system in your home? How
> > much>>do each of these projects cost? I took a good look at the
> > asterisk>>
> > >>
> > >he,he, they are both open source. they cost only your time...
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >>project and it didn't look like much of an outlay, but what are the
> > >>advantages to having a PBX in your home if you have one line? Maybe
> > >>you have a business in your home?
> > >>
> > >>
> > >Well Asterisk isn't just plain PBX. It has also voicemail,
> > Interactive Voice
> > >Responses, it has VOIP functionality... So I can call my family
> > from work
> > >for free, also with others... I can control house over phone and
> > DTMF,>Festival (TTS) speaks back what's going on in the house,
> > etc... And yes, I
> > >have one line too, but like all these features...
> > >
> > >Regards,
> > >
> > >Rob.
> > >
> > >_______________________________________________
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csmillie at gmail

Feb 3, 2005, 10:24 AM

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Re: vonage caller id [In reply to]

Sounds great, is the script posted somewhere?

Thanks,

Colin

On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 13:43:42 -0500, James Armstrong
<james [at] thearmstrongs> wrote:
> I don't know how many people here are using Vonage for phone service. I
> have a perl script I hacked up that monitors the sip traffic to the
> vonage phone and alerts my mythfrontend via mythnotify to the osd when
> there is an incoming call. It shows the caller name and number. This can
> be used if you are running a linux firewall and the vonage phone
> traffice passes through it.
>
> - James
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james at thearmstrongs

Feb 3, 2005, 11:42 AM

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Re: vonage caller id [In reply to]

Colin Smillie wrote:
> Sounds great, is the script posted somewhere?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Colin
>
>
> On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 13:43:42 -0500, James Armstrong
> <james [at] thearmstrongs> wrote:
>
>>I don't know how many people here are using Vonage for phone service. I
>>have a perl script I hacked up that monitors the sip traffic to the
>>vonage phone and alerts my mythfrontend via mythnotify to the osd when
>>there is an incoming call. It shows the caller name and number. This can
>>be used if you are running a linux firewall and the vonage phone
>>traffice passes through it.

http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/107180?search_string=vonage%20link;#107180

-James
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bbenso1 at gmail

Feb 18, 2005, 3:21 AM

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Re: vonage caller id [In reply to]

On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 23:31:37 -0500, Zachary Bedell
<zaclist [at] adirondack> wrote:
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> First of all, if I can put in my "Me Too!" for the Vonage caller-id
> sniffer. That sounds like a useful little bit of code. I'd be happy
> to host the script on my site if it doesn't have anywhere else to live.
>
> On Jan 29, 2005, at 1:47 PM, James Armstrong wrote:
> > I have the same problem with Mythnotify, it does not display while not
> > watching tv. I have been thinking about trying to write something in
> > the frontend that will just display a popup qt box that will do the
> > same while in the menus.
>
> I've had good luck using xYac (which uses XOsd) to handle caller-id
> pop-ups. It displays over anything in X including videos in MPlayer,
> DVDs in Ogle, and all the various Myth plugins.
>
> In my Myth startup script, I have the following line right before the
> call to Mythfrontend:
> xyac -c yellow -f -adobe-utopia-bold-r-normal--*-400-*-*-*-*-* -s 5 &
>
> That gives me a fairly large yellow pop-up that stays for 5 seconds
> then disappears when I get an incoming call.
>
> If you're not familiar with Yac, you can find info here:
> http://www.sunflowerhead.com/software/yac/
>
> Yac is a really simple TCP protocol for caller-id announcements. Just
> open a connection, send a string like @CALLJohn Doe~(123)555-1234\0,
> then close the port.
>
> You can find xYac here:
> http://bah.org/tivo
>
> You can find the xosd package here:
> http://www.ignavus.net/software.html
>
> I've been using xYac for a long time now (longer than Myth even), and
> it's worked flawlessly. I use Asterisk to provide the caller-id info
> from another server where I have a very simple program that sends info
> in the Yac protocol.
>
> My YacSend program is based on elseed (the TiVo caller-id server). You
> can get YacSend here:
> http://www.thebedells.org/software/yacsend-0.6.0.tar.gz
>
> Best regards,
> Zac Bedell
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I like this method of displaying caller id info a lot and it's almost
working wonderfully for me. As long as I'm not actually watching a
recorded show in myth everything appears to work just great.
Unfortunately, if I happen to be watching a recording when xyac
receives an event my screen goes black except for the yac text on the
screen. The text appears to be transparent as I can see the recording
through the 'stencil' of the text, but the rest of the screen is
black. After the yac timeout expires the text disappears and I'm left
with a black screen. In order to see my recording again I have to
stop/pause/ff/rew/play. I'm not sure if it matters, but I'm using the
tv-out of a pvr-350. Come to think of it, I need to test this on my
remote frontend which is displaying on a monitor using an nvidia card
and see what that does. In the meantime, anyone know if/why xyac
might have trouble with the pvr-350 tv-out?

Brad

cerulean47 at gmail

Feb 24, 2005, 12:06 AM

Post #30 of 43 (12816 views)
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Re: vonage caller id [In reply to]

I have a proposed change to the vonageSniff.pl.
In testing the script at my house, the only phone I had to call in
with to test with was my cell phone. The number came through in the
SIP stream, but the caller's name did not. My telephone w/caller id
simply showed "OUTSIDE CALLER". The vonageSniff.pl script didn't
properly parse the From: line in this case.

The regex in the script is expecting a From: line in the following format:
From: "Caller's Name Here" <sip:#######@
...where ####### is the phone number.

Without the caller's name, my SIP stream looked like:
From: <sip:#######@

The existing regex is hardcoded to expect double-quotes, which don't
appear in my From stream.

I changed the regex in line 263 to:
if ($invite=~/From:\s*"?(.*)"?\s*<sip:(.*)@/) {

The ? makes the double-quote optional.

Script works!

Thanks for it,

Larry

aclose at gmail

Jun 4, 2005, 3:00 PM

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Re: vonage caller id (file link) [In reply to]

On 1/30/05, James Armstrong <james [at] thearmstrongs> wrote:

> Just cleaned it up some. Thinking about making it a C program instead of
> Perl script. Here are the Perl Modules needed:
>
> IO::Socket
> Net::Pcap
> NetPacket::Ethernet
> NetPacket::IP
> NetPacket::TCP
> NetPacket::UDP
> Unicode::String
> Proc::Daemon
> Proc::Simple
> Unix::Syslog
>
> The perl script can be downloaded from:
>
> http://www.thearmstrongs.org/mythtv/vonageSniff.pl
>
> Options:
> To use:
> -d=dev <-The device to capture packets from
> -f='filter string' <-String to filter on enclosed in single quotes
> (DEFAULT: 'udp and port 5061')
> -ip <-IP Address to send mythnotify to
> -p <-Place the device into promiscuous mode
> -to=integer <-Read timeout in ms
> --quiet <-Do not print anything but errors to STDOUT
> -D <-Run as daemon
>
> Defaults:
> -d=eth0
> -f='udp and port 5061'
> -p
> -ip='192.168.1.252'
> -to=1000
>
> You need to specify the ip address of your mythfrontend with the -ip
> parameter, the rest of the defaults should be ok.
>

James,

is your VonageSniff.pl script still available? I've been meaning to
grab and install it since you announced it, but didn't. :) and since
i've been spending the day upgrading and configuring my MythBox i
thought i'd install it and try it out. but the script wasn't included
in your email and your website appears to be down...

if it's still available i'd love to try it out.

thanks,
andy
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Nov 29, 2005, 10:19 AM

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Re: vonage caller id [In reply to]

On 1/28/05, James Armstrong <james [at] thearmstrongs> wrote:
> I don't know how many people here are using Vonage for phone service. I
> have a perl script I hacked up that monitors the sip traffic to the
> vonage phone and alerts my mythfrontend via mythnotify to the osd when
> there is an incoming call. It shows the caller name and number. This can
> be used if you are running a linux firewall and the vonage phone
> traffice passes through it.
>
> - James
> _______________________________________________
> mythtv-users mailing list
> mythtv-users [at] mythtv
> http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
>

Digging through some old e-mails. I've got vonage and I think I'm
going to revive an old PII box as an IPCop firewall. Does this script
work with IPCop? What firewall solution are you running James?

Thanks!
Matt
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james at thearmstrongs

Nov 29, 2005, 10:59 AM

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Re: vonage caller id [In reply to]

Matt wrote:
> On 1/28/05, James Armstrong <james [at] thearmstrongs> wrote:
>
>>I don't know how many people here are using Vonage for phone service. I
>>have a perl script I hacked up that monitors the sip traffic to the
>>vonage phone and alerts my mythfrontend via mythnotify to the osd when
>>there is an incoming call. It shows the caller name and number. This can
>>be used if you are running a linux firewall and the vonage phone
>>traffice passes through it.
>>
>>- James
>
> Digging through some old e-mails. I've got vonage and I think I'm
> going to revive an old PII box as an IPCop firewall. Does this script
> work with IPCop? What firewall solution are you running James?

Shouldn't really matter about the firewall. It uses pcap functions to
hook into the stack and tell the os what it wants to listen to. I think
someone was even using it on a different box than his firewall and it work.

- James
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mrhegstrom at gmail

Nov 29, 2005, 12:16 PM

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Re: vonage caller id [In reply to]

I use a program called elseed and xyac to display callerid. I dont need
mythnotify. It uses the X OSD and therefore it doesn't matter what program
I am using. Watching recordings, videos, music, etc. Here is my link over
on the knoppmyth site. You can run esleed and xyac on the same box or send
the caller id to a remote box also running xyac.

http://mysettopbox.tv/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=4836&highlight=callerid

On 11/29/05, Matt <skd5aner [at] gmail> wrote:
>
> On 1/28/05, James Armstrong <james [at] thearmstrongs> wrote:
> > I don't know how many people here are using Vonage for phone service. I
> > have a perl script I hacked up that monitors the sip traffic to the
> > vonage phone and alerts my mythfrontend via mythnotify to the osd when
> > there is an incoming call. It shows the caller name and number. This can
> > be used if you are running a linux firewall and the vonage phone
> > traffice passes through it.
> >
> > - James
> > _______________________________________________
> > mythtv-users mailing list
> > mythtv-users [at] mythtv
> > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
> >
>
> Digging through some old e-mails. I've got vonage and I think I'm
> going to revive an old PII box as an IPCop firewall. Does this script
> work with IPCop? What firewall solution are you running James?
>
> Thanks!
> Matt
> _______________________________________________
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>

mlists at dressler

Nov 29, 2005, 12:20 PM

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Re: vonage caller id [In reply to]

Which Vonage routers do you guys have? I have the linksys and don't
seem to be seeing anything on the network.

Norm

On Tue, 2005-29-11 at 12:16 -0800, Mark H wrote:
> I use a program called elseed and xyac to display callerid. I dont
> need mythnotify. It uses the X OSD and therefore it doesn't matter
> what program I am using. Watching recordings, videos, music, etc.
> Here is my link over on the knoppmyth site. You can run esleed and
> xyac on the same box or send the caller id to a remote box also
> running xyac.
>
> http://mysettopbox.tv/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=4836&highlight=callerid
>
>
>
>
>
> On 11/29/05, Matt <skd5aner [at] gmail> wrote:
> On 1/28/05, James Armstrong <james [at] thearmstrongs> wrote:
> > I don't know how many people here are using Vonage for phone
> service. I
> > have a perl script I hacked up that monitors the sip traffic
> to the
> > vonage phone and alerts my mythfrontend via mythnotify to
> the osd when
> > there is an incoming call. It shows the caller name and
> number. This can
> > be used if you are running a linux firewall and the vonage
> phone
> > traffice passes through it.
> >
> > - James
> > _______________________________________________
> > mythtv-users mailing list
> > mythtv-users [at] mythtv
> > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
> >
>
> Digging through some old e-mails. I've got vonage and I think
> I'm
> going to revive an old PII box as an IPCop firewall. Does
> this script
> work with IPCop? What firewall solution are you running
> James?
>
> Thanks!
> Matt
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e_karlin at yahoo

Nov 29, 2005, 1:39 PM

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Re: vonage caller id [In reply to]

On Tue, Nov 29, 2005 at 03:20:59PM -0500, Mlists wrote:
> Which Vonage routers do you guys have? I have the linksys and don't
> seem to be seeing anything on the network.
>
You either need a box sitting in front of the linksys or some sort of
caller-id modem that can also get the info. The original poster wrote an
app that would sniff for SIP traffic which is basically the voip caller
id info and send it out. the previous poster was using a caller-id modem
to read caller-id info off the analog line

> Norm
>
> On Tue, 2005-29-11 at 12:16 -0800, Mark H wrote:
> > I use a program called elseed and xyac to display callerid. I dont
> > need mythnotify. It uses the X OSD and therefore it doesn't matter
> > what program I am using. Watching recordings, videos, music, etc.
> > Here is my link over on the knoppmyth site. You can run esleed and
> > xyac on the same box or send the caller id to a remote box also
> > running xyac.
> >
> > http://mysettopbox.tv/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=4836&highlight=callerid
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On 11/29/05, Matt <skd5aner [at] gmail> wrote:
> > On 1/28/05, James Armstrong <james [at] thearmstrongs> wrote:
> > > I don't know how many people here are using Vonage for phone
> > service. I
> > > have a perl script I hacked up that monitors the sip traffic
> > to the
> > > vonage phone and alerts my mythfrontend via mythnotify to
> > the osd when
> > > there is an incoming call. It shows the caller name and
> > number. This can
> > > be used if you are running a linux firewall and the vonage
> > phone
> > > traffice passes through it.
> > >
> > > - James
> > > _______________________________________________
> > > mythtv-users mailing list
> > > mythtv-users [at] mythtv
> > > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
> > >
> >
> > Digging through some old e-mails. I've got vonage and I think
> > I'm
> > going to revive an old PII box as an IPCop firewall. Does
> > this script
> > work with IPCop? What firewall solution are you running
> > James?
> >
> > Thanks!
> > Matt
> > _______________________________________________
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> >
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zaclist at adirondack

Nov 30, 2005, 9:07 AM

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Re: vonage caller id [In reply to]

zaclist at adirondack

Nov 30, 2005, 9:12 AM

Post #38 of 43 (12462 views)
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Re: vonage caller id [In reply to]

On Nov 29, 2005, at 3:20 PM, Mlists wrote:
> Which Vonage routers do you guys have? I have the linksys and don't
> seem to be seeing anything on the network.

I have a nasty feeling that if you have one of the integrated ATA/
Router thingy's that Vonage has been shipping lately, you may be
S.O.L. I'd be surprised (*really* surprised) if those devices
forwarded the Vonage packets out to the LAN.

I think your only option would be to get another router/firewall
(IPCop even) and put that in front of your Vonage box. You'd use the
Linksys thing only as an ATA, not as a router. Then you could grab
the Vonage packets on your firewall or using a hub as per normal.

Be aware though: I've read that for some reason, the sniffer script
may NOT work for any newer Vonage accounts activated since January
2005. I have *NO* personal experience with that (I've had Vonage a
long time), nor can I cite any source off the top of my head. It
might be something to research a bit before you start rearranging
your network for nothing, though.

-Zac Bedell

mavantix at gmail

Nov 30, 2005, 10:19 AM

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Re: vonage caller id [In reply to]

> Be aware though: I've read that for some reason, the sniffer script
> may NOT work for any newer Vonage accounts activated since January
> 2005. I have *NO* personal experience with that (I've had Vonage a
> long time), nor can I cite any source off the top of my head. It
> might be something to research a bit before you start rearranging
> your network for nothing, though.

The change is sort of documented here:

http://www.vonage.com/help_knowledgeBase_article.php?article=89

Their equipment provisioned prior to 2005 used port 5061 udp (SIP). So
basically your answer is, the vonage sniff script will only work with
older devices.

I have an old Motorola box for my vonage service, and the script works
like a charm!

-Kenneth
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Nov 30, 2005, 10:25 AM

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Re: vonage caller id [In reply to]

On Nov 29, 2005, at 1:19 PM, Matt wrote:
> Digging through some old e-mails. I've got vonage and I think I'm
> going to revive an old PII box as an IPCop firewall. Does this script
> work with IPCop?

I've got the Vonage sniffer script running on my IPCop box, but it
wasn't especially easy to setup.

IPCop's Perl installation is lacking a bunch of the pre-req's for the
Vonage script. It doesn't have CPAN or a compiler, so installing
things was a lot of manual labor -- compile something on another
Linux box, copy it over, run the script, see what was missing,
compile *that*, rinse, repeat....

That said, now that it's working, I've found it very nice & very
stable. I modified the script to call elseed, so my TiVo, Myth box,
and assorted desktops and laptops all get the pop-up. I've had the
script running for about three weeks now without the slightest problem.

I also found that the sniffer script gets call-waiting notifications
even with call-waiting disabled. I personally can't stand the beep-
kerthump fo a call-waiting-plus-caller-id tone, and I hate putting
people on hold. But knowing *who* called is rather nifty. There's
no tone or ring or anything, but when someone else calls when I'm on
the phone, all the various Yac enabled devices in the house still get
the message.

-Zac Bedell

Zac,

Do you think you could help me out? I'll be installing an IPCop
firewall infront of my vonage ATA this weekend. I have no experience
with IPCop, so if you've already done the work, then GREAT! :) Would
it be possible for you to send me the files I would need to install or
do you have specific documentation?

On 11/30/05, Maverick <mavantix [at] gmail> wrote:
> > Be aware though: I've read that for some reason, the sniffer script
> > may NOT work for any newer Vonage accounts activated since January
> > 2005. I have *NO* personal experience with that (I've had Vonage a
> > long time), nor can I cite any source off the top of my head. It
> > might be something to research a bit before you start rearranging
> > your network for nothing, though.
>
> The change is sort of documented here:
>
> http://www.vonage.com/help_knowledgeBase_article.php?article=89
>
> Their equipment provisioned prior to 2005 used port 5061 udp (SIP). So
> basically your answer is, the vonage sniff script will only work with
> older devices.
>
> I have an old Motorola box for my vonage service, and the script works
> like a charm!
>
> -Kenneth

That's not entirely true... I can't prove this yet, because I don't
have a way to sniff the packets before getting to my vonage ATA (yet),
but I've found a few sources that say they can sniff the callerID info
off of port 10,000. Again, I don't know. I got my vonage box about 3
months ago. So, I'm guessing it won't be port 5061.
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Nov 30, 2005, 11:38 AM

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> > > Be aware though: I've read that for some reason, the sniffer script
> > > may NOT work for any newer Vonage accounts activated since January
> > > 2005. I have *NO* personal experience with that (I've had Vonage a
> > > long time), nor can I cite any source off the top of my head. It
> > > might be something to research a bit before you start rearranging
> > > your network for nothing, though.
> >
> > The change is sort of documented here:
> >
> > http://www.vonage.com/help_knowledgeBase_article.php?article=89
> >
> > Their equipment provisioned prior to 2005 used port 5061 udp (SIP). So
> > basically your answer is, the vonage sniff script will only work with
> > older devices.
> >
> > I have an old Motorola box for my vonage service, and the script works
> > like a charm!
> >
> > -Kenneth
>
>
> That's not entirely true... I can't prove this yet, because I don't
> have a way to sniff the packets before getting to my vonage ATA (yet),
> but I've found a few sources that say they can sniff the callerID info
> off of port 10,000. Again, I don't know. I got my vonage box about 3
> months ago. So, I'm guessing it won't be port 5061.

I wasn't trying to say that you can't sniff the caller ID off the
newer boxes, but the stock vonagesniff.pl won't do it for you... it'll
at least need some tweaking, that is if the SIP packets are the
same...

-Kenneth
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Nov 30, 2005, 2:37 PM

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RE: vonage caller id [In reply to]

> > That's not entirely true... I can't prove this yet, because I don't
> > have a way to sniff the packets before getting to my vonage
> ATA (yet),
> > but I've found a few sources that say they can sniff the
> callerID info
> > off of port 10,000. Again, I don't know. I got my vonage
> box about 3
> > months ago. So, I'm guessing it won't be port 5061.
>
> I wasn't trying to say that you can't sniff the caller ID off
> the newer boxes, but the stock vonagesniff.pl won't do it for
> you... it'll at least need some tweaking, that is if the SIP
> packets are the same...

I have not tried this yet but I am planning to. The new boxes maintain a
connection back to their server on port 10000 (ten thousand). In my network
setup the ATA is just another drop off the hub so I should be able to
monitor traffic. Might be worth setting up a packet sniffer on that port to
see whats being passed when a call comes in.

skd5aner at gmail

Dec 5, 2005, 6:50 PM

Post #43 of 43 (12454 views)
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Re: vonage caller id [In reply to]

On 11/30/05, ZacList <zaclist [at] adirondack> wrote:
> On Nov 29, 2005, at 1:19 PM, Matt wrote:
> > Digging through some old e-mails. I've got vonage and I think I'm
> > going to revive an old PII box as an IPCop firewall. Does this script
> > work with IPCop?
>
> I've got the Vonage sniffer script running on my IPCop box, but it
> wasn't especially easy to setup.
>
> IPCop's Perl installation is lacking a bunch of the pre-req's for the
> Vonage script. It doesn't have CPAN or a compiler, so installing
> things was a lot of manual labor -- compile something on another
> Linux box, copy it over, run the script, see what was missing,
> compile *that*, rinse, repeat....
>
> That said, now that it's working, I've found it very nice & very
> stable. I modified the script to call elseed, so my TiVo, Myth box,
> and assorted desktops and laptops all get the pop-up. I've had the
> script running for about three weeks now without the slightest problem.
>
> I also found that the sniffer script gets call-waiting notifications
> even with call-waiting disabled. I personally can't stand the beep-
> kerthump fo a call-waiting-plus-caller-id tone, and I hate putting
> people on hold. But knowing *who* called is rather nifty. There's
> no tone or ring or anything, but when someone else calls when I'm on
> the phone, all the various Yac enabled devices in the house still get
> the message.
>
> -Zac Bedell
>
>
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I've got IPCop installed now, but now I'm not so sure where to go now.
Could you post how you got it to work on IPCop as well as your
modified script?

Thanks!
Matt
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