Growling PhoneValet ???

[Lena Shore]

Background: I have been a longtime user of PhoneValet. It's basically an answering machine for your mac. It has caller ID that displays cross-referenced with your address book and does the phone tree thing. Love it.

The Problem: PhoneValet died recently and they will stop supporting it June 1st. So, the next upgrade after June 1st, it will cease to work. 

Partial Solution: I did the research and decided the best course of action was for me to get a dedicated MacMini, keep an older system on it and run PhoneValet from that. Works great except for the popup caller ID that is part of PhoneValet. It displays fine on the MacMini - but I need it to display on my main machine. So, I thought I would try Growl.

Currently: I am using PhoneValet on a headless MacMini running 10.6.8 OS and Growl 1.2.2.  I would like this caller ID to display on my main machine (an iMac running 10.7.x and Growl 1.3.1 (happy to upgrade growl if needed).

I found this article that sort of explains two scripts that should make this work:
http://www.g-loaded.eu/2006/11/06/netcat-a-couple-of-useful-examples/

Unfortunately, I am not a developer and don't understand what I'm supposed to do with these two scripts. I did run both and I think that PhoneValet on the MacMini registered the app because PhoneValet now shows up under the Growl Applications on that machine. But, when a phone call comes in, the Caller ID works for PhoneValet, but does not activate the one for Growl... so it never shows up on my main computer.

I don't understand where the other script goes.

Growl help was super quick to respond to me and did answer my question about two versions of Growl not working well together: "Networking between 1.2.2 and 1.3.x is not compatible. So if you're stuck on 10.6.8 on that mac mini, you may need to downgrade your 10.7 box to 1.2.2 as well. Networking doesn't work well in 1.2.2 though, which is why it was replaced."

I may try to downgrade Growl on my main - but I hate to do that. Now I am wondering if I could just buy a dedicated Modem for my main just to display my caller ID. Seems like that would work.

Does anyone have any ideas on how to get this to work? Or can offer any suggestions on how to approach? My brain feels like mashed potatoes.

Thanks,

Lena

(:

[Chris Forsythe]

Did my responses on the support@ list give you what you needed here?

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