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Hi Dan, I'm not an expert on Debian so I'm hoping my fellow NCID developers will hop in here. If you go to INSTALL/UPGRADE from DEB Package and scroll to Install NCID from DEB packages at SourceForge, which of the four methods are you trying to use? Is the main issue best summed up where your post says the following: 💥 Cause: The .deb package for ncid-client1.18-1all.deb explicitly depends on python (the legacy Python 2.x metapackage), which has been removed from recent Debian versions (like 12+)....
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John, did you mean to type https://ncid.sourceforge.io/man/cidcall.1.html instead of nomad.changeip.org? I thot nomad.changeip.org was only used as a way for us developers to review the docs before a release? Maybe I'm wrong. :(
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Did you mean to type https://ncid.sourceforge.io/man/cidcall.1.html instead of nomad.changeip.org? I thot nomad.changeip.org was only used as a way for us developers to review the docs before a release? Maybe I'm wrong. :(
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Hi Allan, I like it! I tried it out on my NCID v1.17 release and it didn't give any output unfortunately, because it's expecting a cidcall.log file with the field pairs from NCID v1.11 and earlier. It was also hardcoded to always look for the LINE field pair as having the valuePOTS. Client code accessing cidcall.log is expected to handle field pairs getting moved around. I don't know JavaScript but I have a friend who has access to ChatGPT o3-mini and helped me make the following changes (attached,...
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Ok, just wanted to make sure I wasn't missing something obvious. Thanks for your prompt reply and have a great weekend. :D
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What is the SFTP path to a project's NEWS files?
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FYI, I tested with a two-monitor setup on my Win11 machine and am not able to duplicate the issue. Text in the NCID client is readable regardless of which monitor I move it to.
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To the Anonymous poster, In addition to the questions/tests that bgr_bgr (Bruno) asks: Could you go into the NCID client and do Help->About->Copy to Clipboard and paste the results on this thread? How are your dual monitors connected -- HDMI, DisplayPort? Are they both connected the same way or one on HDMI and the other on DisplayPort? Or something else entirely?
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I have three machines that I can do some testing on. I carefully compared the output of "encoding names" and they are identical for all three machines. Win10 C:\NCID Universal Client>chcp Active code page: 437 C:\NCID Universal Client>tclsh % info patchlevel 8.6.8 % encoding system cp1252 % encoding names cp860 cp861 cp862 cp863 tis-620 cp864 cp865 cp866 gb12345 gb2312-raw cp949 cp950 cp869 dingbats ksc5601 macCentEuro cp874 macUkraine jis0201 gb2312 euc-cn euc-jp macThai iso8859-10 jis0208 iso2022-jp...
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Hi Alex, The Apple MA034Z/A is definitely not compatible with newer macOS versions, nor the few Linux machines I've now tried. Even Windows cannot find a driver for it. When I executed sudo cat /proc/tty/driver/ttyAMA on Linux and it reported "PL011" I thought this meant an earlier version of the Prolific serial driver, which gave me some hope, but now I see it is for a different serial purpose; ttyAMA0 was not Linux assigned to the Apple Modem at all. It gets assigned whether the Apple modem is...
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Hi Alex, The modem came today. I'll likely update the Wikipedia table eventually with this info, but for now here's what I've discovered. On my oldest Mac, a PowerPC G4 CPU running 10.5.8 (Leopard), I'm running NCID 1.10 and it successfully initializes the Apple MA034Z/A modem. This is a good sign. The ATI3 identifying string gives Motorola SM56 USB 1.5.10 so it is definitely not a Conexant chipset. I don't currently have this old Mac wired to my POTS line, but I wanted to see how far an old version...
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Hi Alex, Regarding the Apple modem in the Wikipedia table, it is an internal modem and not the external USB model MA034Z/A. But after reading your post I am very curious to know if the MA034Z/A will work with NCID so I just bought one from eBay. It is expected to be delivered this coming week so I'll get back to you.
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Hi nospam, I'm not sure what you mean by "ncid client with a module to call your iMessage sender"? My NCIDD server is running on a raspberry pi (legacy setup) and I recently set up a mac-mini as a DVR which is allowing me to forward calls to iMessage. As far as I know apple doesn't allow non-mac clients to connect to iMessage. I use an applescript on my mac-mini to send my message via command line when NCIDpop receives a call notification. If I'm understanding this correctly, it should be easy to...
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Same happens to me on Win11 21H2, OS build 22000.556.
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FYI: dpkg --list | grep libicu ii libicu-dev:armhf 67.1-7 armhf Development files for International Components for Unicode ii libicu67:armhf 67.1-7 armhf International Components for Unicode (edited to remove duplicate posting info inserted by SourceForge forum software)
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A color emojis causes an error in TK, which in turn, causes ncid to fail. Xft emoji support is working to fix the problem: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libxft/-/merge_requests/1 (edited to remove duplicate posting info inserted by SourceForge forum software)
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Hi Dave, that seems to have taken care of it! I'll create a new topic for my reason in running the diagnostics. Edited to add that I see grub2win allows submitting diagnostic info directly to you so I'll do that.
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Hi Dave, that seems to have taken care of it! I'll create a new topic for my reason in running the diagnostics.
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See attached. None of the steps "froze" but it did take several seconds to execute the commands, and on average about a minute over all to do all the steps. Timings in x.log were obtained by running kevinburke/tss: Go port of moreutils/ts. There's a Windows binary release; Go language not needed. First column is relative time from invoking diskpart on the command line, second column is relative time between diskpart emitting output to stdout. diskpart /s x.diskpart | tss-windows-amd64-v1.3.exe >...
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See attached. None of the steps "froze" but it did take several seconds to execute the commands, and on average about a minute over all to do all the steps. Timings in x.log were obtained by running kevinburke/tss: Go port of moreutils/ts. There's a Windows binary release; Go language not needed. First column is relative time from invoking diskpart on the command line, second column is relative time between diskpart emitting output to stdout. diskpart /s x.diskpart | tss-windows-amd64-v1.3.exe >...
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Does anyone have an idea on what could cause it to hang? The Grub2Win base directory is C:\grub2 Running the BCD diagnostics Copying files 49 File(s) copied 1 file(s) copied. 1 File(s) copied 1 file(s) copied. C:\grub2\themes\custom.config.32.bios.txt C:\grub2\themes\custom.config.32.efi.txt C:\grub2\themes\custom.config.64.bios.txt C:\grub2\themes\custom.config.64.efi.txt C:\grub2\themes\custom.options.txt 5 file(s) copied. Running the Diskpart diagnostics (This may take up to 60 seconds)
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Hi Dan, If the client is showing attempts to connect to 127.0.0.1:3333 but ncid.conf shows a different host, this could happen if ncid.conf is changed without restarting the client. If you go to the client and pick Server->Select NCID Server, what does it show as currently selected? And the client is properly communicating with the server. If it was properly communicating, it wouldn't be showing reconnect attempts. What are you seeing that indicates it is working ok? Edited to remove email reply...
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Hi Dan, If the client is showing attempts to connect to 127.0.0.1:3333 but ncid.conf shows a different host, this could happen if ncid.conf is changed without restarting the client. If you go to the client and pick Server->Select NCID Server, what does it show as currently selected? And the client is properly communicating with the server. If it was properly communicating, it wouldn't be showing reconnect attempts. What are you seeing that indicates it is working ok? On Sun, Sep 26, 2021 at 12:33...
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Hi All, SourceForge no longer allows us to use ncidsupport@users.sf.net or ncidsupport@users.sourceforge.net for forwarding attachments to NCID Developers. See today's updated post New email address for sending attachments to NCID support team for temporary work arounds.
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How to send the latest NCID server log entries for technical support
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Send the file as an attachment to ncidsupport@users.sf.net (ncidsupport@users.sourceforge.net also works) in a private email. It will be forwarded to the NCID support team. Your privacy is assured, however, feel free to obfuscate phone numbers and caller names. We use Gmail to forward your attachment to a group of NCID developers and Gmail will reject attachments that have .zip for the extension. Rename it to have some other extension; having no extension will also work. Be sure to let us know in...
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I also think that the first part of this request is a non-starter, because a number shown in cidcall.log could have been affected by several alias lines and then allowed by the whitelist. Edited by Todd to remove email-style reply that included prior posts as it makes it difficult to read on SourceForge.
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You are correct. The column is called "Line ID" and unfortunately for me and my response, it is a required column because of aliases. Edited by Todd to remove email-style reply that included prior posts as it makes it difficult to read on SourceForge.
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I also think that the first part of this request is a non-starter, because a number shown in cidcall.log could have been affected by several alias lines and then allowed by the whitelist. Edited by Todd to remove email-style reply that included prior posts as it makes it difficult to read on SourceForge'.
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You are correct. The column is called "Line ID" and unfortunately for me and my response, it is a required column because of aliases. Edited by Todd to remove email-style reply that included prior posts as it makes it difficult to read on SourceForge'.
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I also think that the first part of this request is a non-starter, because a number shown in cidcall.log could have been affected by several alias lines and then allowed by the whitelist.
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Doh! I built the .tar file wrong. Terribly embarrassed! Yes unpacking into the /usr/bin/ directory and overwrite will work, but you might as well cleanup from my mistake: sudo mv /ncid /ncid-1.11R /usr/bin/
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Hi Sandy, The attached .tar file has a patched ncid that should load correctly as a service. It also has a copy of the original released version using the naming convention ncid-1.11R just in case. We'll tackle the "NO NAME" issue after getting the service working. To install it, download ncid-client-1.11-sandy.tar from this post to the /home/pi directory on your 1.11 SD card, then type: cd sudo tar xf ncid-client-1.11-sandy.tar -C / ncid -V The version report should be ncid (NCID) 1.11-sandya indicating...
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ncidd -V -> ncidd [raspberrypi:3333] (NCID) 1.11 API: 1.10 Feature Set 1 2 3 4 5 Whoa, I wasn't expecting it to be 1.11 for the server. I thought the reason you went to 1.9 was because 1.11 wouldn't work, for reasons we still need to troubleshoot further (not right at this moment though). For now, this appears to be similar to a bug reported by a different user last year, but has remained unresolved because we haven't had any further updates from the user. Could you do the following and let us know...
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Hi Sandy, To summarize my understanding so far: What Version How to get version from command line Raspbian Buster fgrep PRETTY /etc/os-release NCID Server 1.9 ncidd -V NCID Client 1.11 ncid -V TCL 8.6.6 or later echo 'puts [info patchlevel]' | tclsh Could you try stopping ncid-notify as a service and instead launch it from the command line: sudo systemctl stop ncid-notify ncid --no-gui -m ncid-notify -v 4 Try a test call and let us know how it goes.
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Part of the holdup in releasing 1.12 is due to me having hardware difficulties with my Macintosh development environment. It's mostly stable now and I'll be working on helping to finalize the release this week.
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I realize this discussion has progressed beyond first ring suppression but FWIW, I personally use the device BTodCox has linked to, although I got mine from the company that I believe originally designed and sold it on Amazon: FRS22100 First Ring Suppressor Silencer for Robocall blocking services. I have two of them that get used every day; they work flawlessly. Alas the manufacturer's site, MGCON Technologies is no more but based on the link provided by BTodCox, it appears to still be available...
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Hi Graham, Wild, indeed! Very interesting. Using telnet to talk to the NCID server isn't supported nor recommended; NCID doesn't speak the telnet protocol so it is not surprising that the telnet example shows garbage. (1) What is the make/model of your USB modem? If you happen to have a link to its manual that could be helpful. (2) What is the modem's VID:PID? You can find it by examining the output of the lsusb command. Here's what I see on my RPi with a Lenovo USB modem -- vendor id is 17EF and...
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Thanks Ed and Richard for the additional info. I did some Googling and it appears that the Sipura SPA devices use a firmware very similar to the Linksys PAP devices (see here and here). Not only that but there's another site that says: Please note: Though the Linksys adapters have historically been an industry standard, they are built on old technology. If you are considering buying a VoIP ATA, we recommend the new OBi ATAs. The OBi ATAs were built by the same engineers that built the PAP/SPA devices,...
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Hi Richard, I don't have the Sipura hardware but I'll give compiling sipura2ncid a shot. What version of Raspbian are you running -- Jessie, Stretch, Buster -- or something else entirely?
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I searched through the Windows 10 registry and can't find where ghostscript is used by SageThumbs, but maybe .ai/.psd for SageThumbs is linked somewhere external to the registry? If the problem is related to file version like Andy Wallace discovered, then can we at least get some sort of message somewhere that this is the case? There doesn't seem to be any visibility to the user for the reasons a thumbnail isn't available.
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Bump -- can anyone help?
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Hi mmartz, Thank you for providing such a detailed insight. I never would have thought there would be an issue with USB 2.0 devices and USB 3.0 chipsets; that gives me another thing to suspect when troubleshooting. I've added a link to your post from the NCID Wikipedia Article as Note B(2). I really appreciate this projects efforts. :) Thank you all! You're very welcome. Thanks for the compliment -- such feedback is what makes it worthwhile to us to keep improving NCID. :-) Of note, the cake day...
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Hi Al, I borrowed a friend's FireTV 3rd generation dongle (not a "stick") and was able to sideload Network Caller ID client for Google TV. The app used to be in the Google Play Store but isn't anymore, however, there's a link to the .apk hosted on mediafire.com. It works for me and shows the caller name and number.
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Hi Al, A compatible NCID Android app would be the ideal solution as it could talk directly to the NCID server and reduce the "jumps." What is your experience with how quickly caller ID data goes from the Raspberry Pi=>ncid2ifttt=>IFTTT=>Pushover=>PushTV? For example, does it show up on PushTV before the ringing stops? I ask because my non-NCID IFTTT experiments sometimes take 15 minutes before the data is delivered by IFTTT.
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Hi Stringer26, I'm running Fedora 32 and haven't been able to duplicate it so could you do the following: quit ncid client launch from a terminal session: ncid -l 2 -v 5 go to the upper right and click on Help->About take a screen capture of what you see click OK to dismiss the About window quit ncid client grab the log file ('-l 2') which by default is located at ~/NCID/client/ grab the preference file which defaults to ~/.ncid Send the screen capture, log file and preference file to ncidsupport@users.sf.net...
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Hi, According to Disabling SIP with rEFInd: As described later on this page, rEFInd 0.10.0 and later provide SIP control features, but they're disabled by default—except on the USB flash drive and CD-R images available from the rEFInd downloads page. On these images, the SIP control features are enabled, and can toggle between the two main modes you can set via csrutil enable and csrutil disable in the Recovery HD system. And at Using rEFInd to Manage SIP: Whether or not you've enabled these SIP...
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$ /usr/sbin/ncidd -Dv5 -L /var/log/ncidd.log The reason I thought you might not be running ncidd as root is because the shell prompt is showing as "$" (normal default for non-root users) instead of "#" (normal default for root, or su or sudo).
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Using a modem with ncidd usually requires root privileges. There isn't enough info in the log snippet above. Where is it failing? Can you attach the complete log (vs. copying-and-pasting into a forum post)? Edited for typo.
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Using a modem with ncidd usually requires root privileges. There isn't enough info in the log snippet above. Where is it failing? Can you attach the complete log (vs. copying-and-pasting info a forum post)?
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Hi Joe, I redid my Linux Mint setup because I was having weird things work and not work. With a fresh install, I've discovered two problems. Issue #1 If I do cat ~/.xsession-errors, I see mate-session[1246]: WARNING: Could not parse desktop file /home/taa/.config/autostart/net.sourceforge.ncid.desktop: Unrecognized desktop file Version '1.1' As a result, ncid won't autostart and there's no visible indication of the problem unless you look at ~/.xsession-errors. This is a known bug in mate-session-manager....
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Hi Joe, It's normally handled automatically just by going into: File->Auto Start->On only desktop notifications Important note: you'll need to put in place the original (unmodified) /usr/bin/ncid so that it doesn't have the background fix for $::env(HOME). Here are steps you can do to verify the installation. Change to the directory where you saved ncid-client_1.11-1_all.deb and type the following to make sure it has the needed file: $ dpkg -c ncid-client_1.11-1_all.deb|grep desktop you should see...
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Hi Joe, It's normally handled automatically just by going into: File->Auto Start->On only desktop notifications Important note: you'll need to put in place the original (unmodified) /usr/bin/ncid so that it doesn't have the background fix for $::env(HOME). Here are steps you can do to verify the installation. Change to the directory where you saved ncid-client_1.11-1_all.deb and type the following to make sure it has the needed file: $ dpkg -c ncid-client_1.11-1_all.deb|grep desktop you should see...
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I have removed most of my posts in order to focus on the "Auto Start" feature added to the ncid client at NCID version 1.9. Here is what you should see: ncid client
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Hi Joe, Edit /usr/bin/ncid and put in your original fix where you replace all three occurrences of $::env(HOME) with /root. Change from: set UnixLogDir $::env(HOME)/NCID/client set UnixRCfile "$::env(HOME)/.ncid" set UnixASfile "$::env(HOME)/.config/autostart/net.sourceforge.ncid.desktop" To: set UnixLogDir /root/NCID/client set UnixRCfile "/root/.ncid" set UnixASfile "/root/.config/autostart/net.sourceforge.ncid.desktop" When running in background, ncid is getting killed before it even has a chance...
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My apologies for the confusion I've created. ncid-fix.txt is from a private email you sent to me and John back in April 2017. The NCID Developers have a set of shared Dropbox folders and we usually create one per user where we stash attachments received; it's easier for us to look in one folder when researching an issue vs. attachments in separate emails or separate SourceForge posts. It's also easier for me to confuse myself, and the reporting user (in this case, you) when I'm not paying attention...
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Hi Glen, I'm not finding in the source where it would generate that message. Can you attach a screen capture to this ticket, or if it contains sensitive info, can you send it to ncidsupport email Is your SSH session wired or wireless? What SSH terminal software are you using (putty, ssh on Linux, Bitvise, etc.)?
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Hi Glen, It should run indefinitely. If it doesn't it's usually a network connectivity problem, either ncid loses connection to the NCID server, or your SSH session times out. For SSH, if you have a "keep alive" setting, turn it on, as this will send a packet (usually you can say how frequently, 60 seconds is what I usually use) to maintain the connection even when you aren't actively interacting with it. If it still appears to be ncid that is timing out, try running it at a high verbose level and...
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Glen, There might be an easy way for us to add a check to handle your case. Try typing this into an SSH terminal session: xhost >/dev/null 2>/dev/null && echo "GUI" || echo "no-gui" It should pause briefly and then show "no-gui" for your case. Note that the above also checks correctly if you're doing X11 forwarding over an SSH tunnel and have a local X server running. Next try: time xhost it should fail with a message something like unable to open display. What I'm interested in knowing is how long...
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Ed, The output you're seeing is generated by tclsh so it does appear to be installed. What do you get if you do: (dpkg -l 'tcl*' 'tk*') | grep --color=never '^ii' I'm in the process of rebuilding an rPi after the microSD got corrupted, and I haven't installed much, if anything, yet, so I get: On another rPi that I occasionally use for NCID development I get: ("windowing shell" means "wish")
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Hi Anonymous, FYI, John has approved your request and sent me his in-progress changes so I can work on finishing it.
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Glen, launch ncid like the following. By default it wants to show on a graphical display. ncid --no-gui
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Glen, launch ncid like the following. By default wants to show on a graphical display. ncid --no-gui
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Hi Alessandro, Glad you got it working and thanks for letting us know. In case someone else runs into this same issue, can you tell us the name of your carrier? Is the time-out something you're able to change (if so, can you provide specific instructions) or do you just have to live with it?
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Hi Anonymous, You should be able to fix by installing the missing Perl module: cpan install Device::SerialPort And re-try the test.
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Hi Alessandro, What is the model of your USR modem? And is it listed on this modem compatibility chart?
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According to this link, Java isn't certified yet to run on Catalina -- doesn't mean that it won't though. John, if you go to System Preferences->Other, do you see an icon for Java? If not, you'll need to download and install the latest version of the Java runtime environment as mentioned by Ed in his earlier post. Click here to directly download the latest Mac version If you do see the icon, click on it and then go to About to get the version info. I hope the above info works. I'm still hindered...
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Hi John, Could you type the following in a Terminal prompt: file /Applications/NCIDpop.app/Contents/MacOS/JavaApplicationStub I'm expecting one of two responses: #1 /Applications/NCIDpop.app/Contents/MacOS/JavaApplicationStub: cannot open `/Applications/NCIDpop.app/Contents/MacOS/JavaApplicationStub' (No such file or directory) or #2 /Applications/NCIDpop.app/Contents/MacOS/JavaApplicationStub: Mach-O universal binary with 2 architectures /Applications/NCIDpop.app/Contents/MacOS/JavaApplicationStub...
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Hi John, Thanks for this info. Just making sure I understand the sequence -- NCIDpop was already installed when you upgraded to Catalina?
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Hi Anonymous, It'll be about a week before I can get access to a Mac running Catalina. In the meantime can you let me know the following: What do you see when you click on "Learn More..."? Which installer did you use -- the one in NCIDpop-MacOSX-Compat-0.10.11.0.dmg or NCIDpop-MacOSX-0.10.11.dmg -- or did you try both? Can you confirm the installer(s) you used completed successfully?
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NCIDpop no longer working on Mac OS Catalina
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I believe Ed's point is that the H's (i.e., how 'strings' is decoding) are how hardcoded strings are stored in the compiled binary. If you look at Ed's other examples you can clearly see a pattern of H's. 2: generH ate FAX H tones thH en hanguH 3: play H an annouH ncement H then hanH Maybe but /var/locH is not in the ncidd source files 'generH' and 'FAX H' and 'thH' and 'hanguH' etc. don't appear in source either, but they do appear in the 'strings' output, which seems to support Ed's statement,...
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Reece, did this fix the problem for you?
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Could you let us know what the telephone service says or does? I'm just curious.
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Put Alex's ncid-prog_gpio.shand ncid-run_prog.sh scripts in the main attachment list to make it easier to find. Added contributors to main descriptions.
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I had an old script to handle CSV files and I've updated it and put it on Network Caller ID / Wiki / Useful-Scripts.
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