Last blogs I mentioned I am now using voip. It works great. Sometimes there is some echo in conversations, but that I can live with.

What I dont like is that caller id does not work with my prepaid account and also budgetphones accounting is not acccessible for prepaid users. Maybe I will switch to a post paid account to have those features. Maybe not though.

To my surprise I noticed that there was a mythtv extension for sip. So this week I’ve set up an asterisk server on my mythtv box. The plugin of mythtv connects to it, and asterisk is connected to budgetphone. Et voila, when someone calls me, there is a popup on my television which shows who’s calling, hmmmm, at least that should happen when I have caller ID… The rest of the plugin I can not seem to understand, but this works.

Asterisk is really great. You can actually create a text file with information like a local extention and a number to dial and put that file in the spool folder of asterisk and it will dial the local extention, wait until it answers and call the number.

Yeah, I should spend my time on usefull stuff, I know. But I broke the digiKam tarball 0.8.1, which does not compile < KDE 3.4, I probably am to blame for breaking the search as well in that release, and I might be responsible for breaking the calendar kipi. So, I need to clean up some things in the near future. That will probably slow down developing rsibreak even further.

On other news, I'm starting to gather information about the people who want to attend to the multimedia meeting, so if I didn’t sent you a mail already, let me know.