RE: [misterhouse-users] Re: Caller ID v 2.81 problems

[Bruce W. <br...@mi...>]

> > Steve, I think you solved the missing area_codes file problem by copying
> > over the mh/data files to your private data dir, right?
>
> No, the exact opposite. I had the files in my private dir, and
> kept editing
> them, trying to figure out what was wrong... when I copied them to the
> distro data dir, it worked fine.

Right, I remember now.  We have these mh.ini parms:

 caller_id_file = $Pgm_Root/data/phone/phone.caller_id.list
 area_code_file = $Pgm_Root/data/phone/phone.area_codes.list
 state_file     = $Pgm_Root/data/states.list

We could change them to be $data_dir by default, but then those that didn't
copy those files over would be messed up.  Probably best to leave those
defaults as is.

> c:\mh\2.81\data &
> c:\mh\2.81\code
> vs
> c:\mh\data &
> c:\mh\code
>
> > Did you figure out what was spellling out UNKNOWN?   Was it in
> the speech
> > engine, or in the caller ID code?
>
> The callerID code is seeing "-UNKNOWN CALLER-" from the netcallerid, and
> speaking, "Call from -UNKNOWN CALLER-", which causes the MS TTS engine to
> spell "unknown", then say "caller".
> The old code used to say, "Call from unknown" when no both name AND number
> were unknown, but speak, "Call from 223-1234" when the name is
> unknown, but
> the number is known. This would be my preference.

My AT&T MS TTS engine does not spell out -UNKNOWN, but rather says 'dash
unknown'.  I could beleive other engines work differently.

Looks like we want to update 2 lines in lib/CID_Announce.pm from this:

 $format1  = "Unknown" if $type eq 'U';
 $format1  = $snumber unless $format1 =~ /\S/;

to this:

 $format1  = "Unknown" if $type eq 'unknown';
 $format1  = $snumber unless $format1 =~ /\S/ or $type eq 'unknown';

The U got changed to unknown earlier in that file, so we had the wrong test.

Bruce