{"id":751,"date":"2016-09-25T18:42:54","date_gmt":"2016-09-26T00:42:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wmbuck.net\/blog\/?p=751"},"modified":"2016-09-25T18:42:54","modified_gmt":"2016-09-26T00:42:54","slug":"caller-id-in-kodi-redux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wmbuck.net\/blog\/?p=751","title":{"rendered":"Caller Id in Kodi – Redux"},"content":{"rendered":"

I posted in this post<\/a> about how I arranged to get caller-Id to show up in Kodi. At that time I was still using POTS, but since then I have switched to VoIP and set up Asterisk.<\/p>\n

I did find another plugin that would connect to Asterisk and obtain information about incoming calls. But until now it was only half way working. I finally got around to paying attention to it. It was originally provided by “hmronline” and I found it at code.google.com. It was last worked on with Dharma, and I had to do some things to get it ready for Jarvis.<\/p>\n

The source code is now in the tarragon svn repository, under the name KodiAsterisk. On coriander, where the production Kodi lives, there is a checked out directory under \/Users\/wmb called kodiasterisk. For Kodi to install it it has to be zipped, so the sequence is to svn update the directory, then zip the directory as script.service.dee-kodi-asterisk.zip. Then install it within Kodi.<\/p>\n

It attaches to asterisk on cinnamon using the Asterisk manager interface.\u00a0 Authentication on the manager interface uses files in \/etc\/asterisk\/manager.d which has one file per authorized user, containing credentials.<\/p>\n

The code has features to<\/p>\n