A Cute Trick

[Gprev]

Here is a dorkly little item I thought I would pass along. By adding the following to your WAF-NetCaller-ID-Processing script, you can create an automatic link that will perform a reverse phone lookup from the Homeseer Status page.

hs.SetDeviceString "q1", "{a href=http://www.whitepages.com/5050/search/Reverse_Phone?phone=" & s_ncid_number& ">" & s_ncid_number & " - " & s_ncid_name& "{/a>"

Replace "q1" with whatever virtual device ID you are using for your WAF NetCaller device. Also, replace the brackets "{" with "<". I had to do this to keep the board from parsing the URL (isn't there a way to override this?)

Only tested with HS 1.7. May not work with 2.0.

[fungun]

Does it matter where in the script you put this code?
Thanx
Tim

[Gprev]

Location

It needs to be in the portion of the script that is configured to run when a call is received.

I put the above line of code in the WAF-NetCallerID-Sample-CID-Processing.vbs file, under "Function process_ncid_data(what_parameters)."

-George

[MBenzo]

George,

That's a handy trick. Thanks a lot!

Matt

[fungun]

Thanx, George

[dkindred]

Cool idea!!

--David

[BraveSirRobbin]

What would be cool is if the number was NOT in your listing to then do this, otherwise I want my custom entry displayed.

Any thoughts?

[dkindred]

BSR,

Just slip the line of code in at this location:

'--------------------------------------------
   ' Example 3: Search phone list text file for
   '			number match. Return associated
   '			custom name and code. Based upon
   '			return code, caller is announced
   '			or not, depending upon time of
   '			day. 
   '--------------------------------------------
   ' Attempt to return custom name for caller from phone
   ' list file
   i_ret = find_match(s_ncid_number, s_phone_list_name, s_phone_list_code)   
   
   If i_ret = -1 Then
 
  [color=Red]hs.SetDeviceString "q1", "{a href=http://www.whitepages.com/5050/search/Reverse_Phone?phone=" & s_ncid_number& ">" & s_ncid_number & " - " & s_ncid_name& "{/a>"
  [/color]
  
  	' No match was found in the phone list text file.
 	' Assign NCID name to phone list variable and 
 	' assign a code of 2000 (Others) to caller.
 	s_phone_list_name = s_ncid_name
 	s_phone_list_code = 2000
 	
 	' Add new caller to text file with a default
 	' code of 2000.
 	i_ret = add_caller_to_file(s_ncid_number, s_ncid_name, 2000)	 
   End If