Vbox-plugin

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Contents 1 Description 2 Hardware requirements 3 Software requirements 4 Installation 5 Configuration 5.1 Parameter 6 Problems 7 Links

[edit] Description

The vbox plugin is a frontend to the isdn answering machine vbox2.

The following features are supported

• Lists all calls recorded by vbox
• Plays the call through the DVB card.
• Multiple users (vboxes) supported
• Support the vbox-ctrls Stop, Answer all, Answer, Reject , Suspend
• Notifies of new calls recorded by vbox, while you are watching tv.
• Can resolve name from number with help of a script

[edit] Hardware requirements

• ISDN card

[edit] Software requirements

• libmad
• libsndfile
• vbox2

[edit] Installation

To install libmad

cd $SOURCEDIR
tar xvzf libmad-<VERSION>.tar.gz
cd libmad-<VERSION>
./configure --prefix=/usr/local
make
make install
ldconfig

and libsndfile

cd $SOURCEDIR
tar xvzf libsndfile-<VERSION>.tar.gz
cd libsndfile-<VERSION>
./configure --prefix=/usr/local
make
make install
ldconfig

For the plugins, see plugin installation.

[edit] Configuration

A vboxuser.conf file has to be created in the /etc/vdr/plugins configuration directory, consisting of a line

myserver:port:user1:passwort1:pin1

for every user. The pin is not used yet, but has to be there, set it to 0000. Port can be -1, then the standard vboxd port is used.

Try the vbox console client to test, if you can connect to the server before creating the conf file and running vdr.

[edit] Parameter

Parameter (short)	Parameter (long)	Description
-r SCRIPT	--resolvenumber=SCRIPT	Script to resolve names from numbers

[edit] Problems

[edit] Links

[1]	http://linvdr.org/download/vdr-vbox	Plugin homepage
[2]	http://www.underbit.com/products/mad	libmad homepage
[3]	http://www.zip.com.au/~erikd/libsndfile	libsndfile homepage