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ACID 2.2 available (modified 0 times) Sketchy Profile Hi everyone. I've released version 2.2 of ACID (Audrey Caller ID). Pick it up at www.timemocksme.com/acid. Some of the new features are: - Custom name and sound for "Private" or "Out of Area" calls. - Name/number lookups in client mode. - Longer call display in client mode. - External modem support. - Terse email mode. - Caller ID data in the subject line of the email. - Delayed email sending (for dialup users). - A cleaner installation, with one directory holding all the important files. - Audrey's channel knob scrolls through the list of past calls. - The list of past calls can be cleared via an on-screen button. - Calls where no caller ID data is received are now be logged along with the others, so at least you know there was a call Plus a few little fixes and tweaks. Note that the number database needs to have tabs between the fields now (no spaces), so some of you may have to edit your databases. The website has all the info, including step-by-step installation instructions and a list of common problems. -- Jim ACID and other Audrey apps 03-04-2002 01:16:54

RE:ACID 2.2 available (modified 0 times) bazabba Profile | Email How do i setup database for Unknown Number and Unknown name 03-08-2002 19:11:17

RE:ACID 2.2 available (modified 0 times) bazabba Profile | Email Actually...hmm...i have a phone with caller id..and when it has no name but a number..the audrey displays out of area and the #. I get it. 03-09-2002 00:53:12

RE:ACID 2.2 available (modified 0 times) soundman Profile Hello, Ive heard that ACID can wake up Adurey from regular sleep state. Can this wake up be initiated also over ethernet ? If so, I'd kindly ask if someone could compile only small part that would wake audrey up over ethernet or maybe even make ACID as "secret" (I'd not like to wake up with ACID screen) wake-up programme for Audrey ? Thanks in advance, soundman 03-15-2002 03:10:24

RE:ACID 2.2 available (modified 0 times) bholio Profile I wrote a few programs whcih will initiate an Audrey wake-up http://www.geocities.com/bholio fireF4: When run, it will act as if you just hit the BROWSER button. This causes the Audrey to wake up (if sleeping) and display the web browser and toggle it's full-screen state fireKey: This program can simulate any keypress (except power, volume and maybe some others). To wake up Audrey without disturbing what's on the screen, simply send space, or arrow or something. You need to enable the web server to handle remote requests. Each program runs as a CGI started by a remote http request. 03-15-2002 14:30:30

RE:ACID 2.2 available (modified 0 times) soundman Profile Hello, thanks for response. I really am interested in this things. But I'd like to wake up remote Audrey without web server active (in real sleep mode, also web server goes to sleep - if I remember right). And I assume (correct if I'm wrong)in ACID waking up is implemented in this way ? What I'd like to do is to instruct remote Audrey to run FireF4 or similar through maybe Ethernet (tcp port) and not web server. Thanks in advance, Robert Rozman 03-16-2002 01:07:35

RE:ACID 2.2 available (modified 0 times) Sketchy Profile ACID merely simulates a keypress when a call is received. The code to do that was taken from a post Keith_D made to this forum a while back. Do some searches for "send_key" and you'll find it. To do what you want would require a custom program that listens for requests on a port and wakes up the Audrey when a request is received. -- Jim ACID and other Audrey apps 03-17-2002 11:48:39

RE:ACID 2.2 available (modified 0 times) Karpa1484 Profile Sketchy Is is possible to make acid open a new pterm window, or something similar, to make the pterm still usable while acid is running? Karpa1484 03-20-2002 18:31:58

RE:ACID 2.2 available (modified 0 times) Sketchy Profile If you run ACID from a pterm, run it in the background like this: "acid &" You can run any app in the background if you put & as the last character on the line. This gives you the pterm back. -- Jim ACID and other Audrey apps 03-20-2002 20:01:43

RE:ACID 2.2 available (modified 0 times) booya Profile Jim, is it possible to make ACID mute Audrey when the phone rings? This would be helpful when listening to music on Audrey when the phone rings. It would probably render the custom sounds that ACID can play useless but I would still like to see this feature. Would it be possible to mute all apps except for ACID? Thanks.. Get help, chat, and be merry.. Join #audrey on Efnet 03-30-2002 20:22:24

RE:ACID 2.2 available (modified 0 times) booya Profile Jim, Anything new in Acid? I was also wondering if you would be able to set the LED to flash or stay solid after a certain amount of rings? Also I have noticed that I have hit the quit button a few times when I meant to hit hide. Eventually I will train myself, but maybe hide would be better placed farther away from the quit button? I dunno just suggestions.. my wife and I love your app. Thanks. Get help, chat, and be merry.. Join #audrey on Efnet 04-03-2002 11:50:57

RE:ACID 2.2 available (modified 0 times) Sketchy Profile I haven't been doing any development on it lately. I have received a few suggestions, all of which I'm considering adding to the next version (but I don't know when that will be). I don't know of a way to mute all other apps unless it is some kind of interprocess communication, which requires new versions of everything that makes sound. -- Jim ACID and other Audrey apps 04-03-2002 13:19:26

RE:ACID 2.2 available (modified 0 times) AudreyX3 Profile Sketchy, Is there ANYTHING else I can try to get ACID to work. This is such a cool app and all I can get is RINGING No Data. Yes, I do subscribe to caller ID. I've tried the top jack, the bottom jack, with a phone plugged in, without a phone plugged in, near my entry point, away from my entry point. The only thing I haven't tried is reversing polarity of the center wires, and I'll try that tonight. I know it's a crappy modem from when I was using it for dialup. Is there some kind of signal amp or in line filter to try? I've got 3 Audreys, and I want to use one on my exercise bike, with Voyager, PhJuke, and hopefully ACID. Just once I'd like to see it pick up somekind of data... TIA Audrey X3 04-05-2002 15:10:27

RE:ACID 2.2 available (modified 0 times) Sketchy Profile It bums me out when people simply can't get any CID data. Seems like about 10-20% of Audrey users are in this boat. Have you tried getting data using qtalk (without ACID running)? If not, do a search on this forum on "qtalk modem" for instructions on that, just to rule out any application-specific bugs. Have you tried a different Audrey, or always the same one? Perhaps that one Audrey has an especially bad modem. Do you have a telephone demarcation point where the telco's line joins your interior wiring? If so, you could try running a line to the jack out there to rule out problems with inside wiring. Both koreth (who wrote the original caller id app with which ACID was merged) and I have replaced our inside wiring with CAT5e and haven't had any trouble since then. Some people in your position have given up on the Audrey modem and either 1) plugged in an external modem into the Audrey serial port, or 2) run Caller ID Sentry on a PC and make the Audreys listen to the PC over the network. Are either of those options convenient or available? -- Jim ACID and other Audrey apps 04-05-2002 15:27:33

RE:ACID 2.2 available (modified 0 times) AudreyX3 Profile Well, I treid everything. I also plugged in a regular Caller ID box and it picked up the info every time, so I guess the line is okay. Just a crappy modem in the Audrey. Too bad because ACID is a cool app. Sooo, I'm going to install CallerID Sentry and see if I can figure out how to make it work with my network. Thanks, Audrey X3 04-11-2002 07:25:27

RE:ACID 2.2 available (modified 0 times) AudreyX3 Profile Hey Sketchy, I don't know who else to ask but you seem to know your stuff so... Well, I'm gonna use ACID one way or another. I downloaded and installed CALLER ID SENTRY to my WIN98 box, put a separate caller ID unit in line, and I can't even get CALLER ID SENTRY to work. I've used several different init strings (it's a USR SPORSTER voice internal modem). The in line Caller ID box is picking up the signal and displaying data. When I call in the modem on the PC starts trying to dial out! I know you don't have anything to do with SENTRY but have you ever run across a problem like this. Also, I ran hyperterminal, and get OK returns. Thanks alot, Audrey X3 04-11-2002 20:06:06

RE:ACID 2.2 available (modified 0 times) rrdragon Profile Sketchy, So far this app has been really fun to show and tell. Thanks for the app! But I did notice that Audrey seems to not be able to make any sounds after a few calls into ACID. Once I exit ACID it makes the power on/off sound from one to however many calls it received before it went silent. Even the chrome on/off button goes silent. I’ll exit ACID and start it again and all seems to be ok, ...for a while. I am also using about 6 unique wav files in my friends.txt file. What could be wrong? Can the wave files be to short or long … to small/high a sample rate? Or is it something else. Thanks for your help... 04-11-2002 22:26:36

RE:ACID 2.2 available (modified 0 times) Sketchy Profile AudreyX3, have you tried removing the CallerID box and just running the line straight to the PC modem? Maybe the signal is being eaten by the box before the modem can see it. Are you sure the modem is capable of Caller ID? Run hyperterm and type "AT#CID=1S0=0" (those are zeroes), then dial up the modem to see for sure. rrdragon, if you can use some kind of wav editor to look at the info for the .wav files, it would help. I haven't heard of this problem before. Let me know the sample rate, stereo or mono, 8 bit or 16 bit, and how long the files are. I'll try to recreate the problem once I get this info. Seems like the sound driver could be getting backed up from not being able to finish playing a sound. -- Jim ACID and other Audrey apps 04-11-2002 22:56:15

RE:ACID 2.2 available (modified 0 times) AudreyX3 Profile Thanks Sketchy, I have the telco line plugged into the PC, and the separate caller ID box plugged into the PC. Anyway, I removed the CID box amd still no luck. I started hyperterm and entered AT#CID=1S0=0 and got OK. I dialed my home number with a cell phone and no luck, but all other CID devices work great. The modem is a USR Sporster 56000 Voice internal modem in a Dell PC. The modem is at least 5 years old. Do I need a different modem? I'll go buy a new modem if that will work. Any suggestions on a modem that will definitely work? I'm getting CID info at every location with either built in CID phones or separate CID boxes, but I can't seem to get any info using Audreys (3) or PCs (2). This is frustrating to no end, but I do greatly appreciate your help. Audrey X3 04-12-2002 06:55:16

RE:ACID 2.2 available (modified 0 times) bretb Profile I also can't get ACID to work. My twist on the story is it worked great when I first installed Jukebox's v3 image. I haven't changed a thing since then, but ACID stopped showing new call info about a week ago. Caller ID info is passing through to the phone plugged into Audrey. 04-12-2002 09:46:23

RE:ACID 2.2 available (modified 0 times) Brumski Profile | Email breth, I'm not sure if this is related: My Audrey began inducing a buzz into our phone line after it had been running well otherwise for about two weeks. powering down the Audrey for 30+ seconds and powering back up got rid of the buzz (luckily.) It may be that the components of the Audrey modem may be building up a charge of some sort that is disipated when powered down. Only because you mention that it seemed to work, and then not, leads me to think about this, as my Audrey's buzz problem appeared to build up after a period of usage as well. Regards, Brumski 04-12-2002 10:52:22

RE:ACID 2.2 available (modified 1 times) bretb Profile That's interesting. I have not uplugged Audrey since I installed Jukebox's image, which was about three weeks ago. ACID stopped showing caller ID info two weeks later. My wife just called me from the phone plugged into Audrey and I did notice a faint hum on the line. I'll unplug her (Audrey) tonight and see what happens. Thanks for the tip. 04-12-2002 11:18:07

RE:ACID 2.2 available (modified 0 times) rrdragon Profile Sketchy, After trying to catalog this info I discovered one of the wav files I modified was corrupt. I'm using Audrey to record the wav files then windows sound recorder to shorten it down to under 90k. I guess I messed with it to much and corrupted it.?? I'm trying some stock win2k sounds and will let you know if Audrey still behaves weird. 04-12-2002 20:14:56

RE:ACID 2.2 available (modified 0 times) Sketchy Profile AudreyX3 -- if your modem said "OK" after you put in the AT#CID=1, then it is a caller ID modem. If a modem doesn't support caller ID, it has to return "ERROR" to that command in order to be standards compliant. I don't know what's going on with your setup! Maybe that modem is broken? Lots of internal modems do support caller ID. If you wanted to try buying a new one, just head to a computer parts store and buy any one that advertises caller ID support. Go somewhere with a good return policy :) Bretb and Brumski -- I've also noticed a faint buzz on the line after having ACID and Audrey on for a long time. But then sometimes it can go for weeks without buzzing. I wish I could get more info about the modem to try to prevent it. I was going to disassemble rsmodem (the Audrey's modem driver) to do some research, but the thing is 600K! Too daunting. Our only hope is if some former 3Com employee accidentally emailed me the source to rsmodem (acidtest@timemocksme.com) rrdragon -- a corrupt .wav could cause the problems you described. Let me know what happens with stock sounds. -- Jim ACID and other Audrey apps 04-13-2002 09:45:16

RE:ACID 2.2 available (modified 0 times) bretb Profile Just to close the loop on my post from the 12th, after I unplugged Audrey and plugged her back in, ACID worked perfectly. Now I'll see what happens in a couple of weeks. 04-17-2002 10:34:18

RE:ACID 2.2 available (modified 0 times) AudreyX3 Profile Help Sketchy! I went out and bought a new modem for my PC. I am now successfully running CALLER ID SENTRY and it's working. I have it checked to act as a network server. I am using Infinity's latest version , but it had Acid ver. 2.1, so I deleted Acid 2.1,and FTP'd ACID ver.2.2 into /nto/photon/bin. I did the chmod ACID +x, and started ACID in shell with ACID -c 192.168.1.101. CALLER ID SENTRY is picking up the caller ID data, but I'm not getting anything on ACID. I am using a shared drive for pictures, MP3s, Audrey images, and Voyager cache, so I know the network side is working. What am I doing wrong? Thanks, Audrey X3 04-17-2002 20:01:15

RE:ACID 2.2 available (modified 0 times) Sketchy Profile It sounds like you are doing everything right. I guess I'd just check everything once again. Can you ping the PC from the Audrey and vice versa? Is CIDSentry using the default server port of 4550? -- Jim ACID and other Audrey apps 04-17-2002 20:32:33

RE:ACID 2.2 available (modified 0 times) booya Profile I wanted to share something that I discoverd today. I just recieved a bjc 2100 printer and plugged it into the free usb port on Audrey and proceded to print some test pages without problems. Later that day I got a few calls and received the No Data messages. After a half hour or so I made the conclusion that Acid barley works for me with both usb ports in use. It works wonderfully when I only have the ethernet adapter plugged in. As soon as I add the printer back on Audrey I get the No Data calls. I also tried a usb hub, so I would still only have one usb port filled but got the same results. The printer didn't work as I expected (it only prints screenshots and not whole webpages) anyways so it had to go. Get help, chat, and be merry.. Join #audrey on Efnet 04-18-2002 00:45:13

RE:ACID 2.2 available (modified 0 times) AudreyX3 Profile Thanks Sketchy, Yes, I can ping both ways...I THINK I'm on port 4550 on CALLER ID SENTRY but I'm not positive. I have CALLER ID SENTRY installed on a WIN95 machine and a WIN98 machine, and the 98 machine doesn't display the program the same as the 95. The 98 machine doesn't display the up/down arrows for the init box, and it cuts off about half the port box. Its the same program installed on both systems (downloaded and installed 2 times). Anyway, even though I can't read what's in the port box, I can cursor in and delete what's there, and re-enter 4550, so I'm pretty sure it's okay. I'm getting Caller ID data from CALLER ID SENTRY on the PC. I'm mounting a share at startup. I've got Random Pic running. Could that be causing problems? What flavor WIN are you running??? TIA Audrey X3 04-18-2002 09:24:45

RE:ACID 2.2 available (modified 0 times) Sketchy Profile I don't run CIDSentry normally. I only ran it once or twice, just to test the functionality. This was on a Win98 machine, and it worked fine in server mode and in client mode. Try putting a one second resubscribe rate on the Audrey client (-r 1), just to test if maybe it's losing the connection. Also, try putting the PC in client mode and point it at the Audrey. Plug the phone line into the Audrey and dial in. Even if you don't get CID data through your Audrey modem, I think it would push the "No Data" to the PC when a call comes in. Use the -v (verbose) switch on ACID to catch any debug output. -- Jim ACID and other Audrey apps 04-18-2002 11:01:24

RE:ACID 2.2 available (modified 0 times) AudreyX3 Profile Hi Sketchy, Well, I returned the internal modem for the PC and bought a USR external modem to use with an Audrey. I only want to use the modem for CID. I have broadband for internet access. So I would use acid -m /dev/ser/1 -i ATS0#CID=1 on the one Audrey connected to the modem, and acid -c -r 300 on the other Audreys running as clients? Anything else? Does it matter when I power up the modem? Thanks for your patience. Audrey X3 04-22-2002 07:57:20

RE:ACID 2.2 available (modified 0 times) Sketchy Profile Sorry you're having to go through so much trouble to get things working. Hopefully this external modem will do the trick. First, read this: http://www.timemocksme.com/acid/#external Also, Jukebox has a good summary post of his findings with external modems: http://www.linux-hacker.net/cgi-bin/UltraBoard/UltraBoard.pl?Action=ShowPost&Board=3Com_Audrey&Post=1180 Good luck -- Jim ACID and other Audrey apps 04-22-2002 10:01:23

RE:ACID 2.2 available (modified 0 times) AudreyX3 Profile Success at last. Just for the heck of it, I tried my ORIGINAL internal modem, used the init string ATS0=0#CID=1 with Caller ID Sentry, and it worked! Next I set Caller ID Sentry up to act as a server, set ACID as a client, and THAT worked too. Thanks to all for the help! Audrey X3 04-22-2002 12:03:06

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