A phone as automated annoyance device

brian_d_foy on 2004-02-04T22:15:21

I am still thinking about which phone to buy, am I am leaning towards a Sony Ericsson T616. I want to turn it into a push (as in "push me off the couch") technology.

Imagine a shell program I run like this:

% call "Laundry is done" 20m

In twenty minutes, my phone will buzz and I know to check on my laundry. Or:

% call "Parsifal is over-Go home" 5h30m

# use an absolute time
% call "Feed the cat" 0730

# an alarm clock
% call "Wake up" 0645; call "I mean it!" 0655

# call from cron
0 55 23 * * call "Daily Show in 5 mins"

# blind date rescue call
% call "911! Work emergency" 2100

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Should be fairly easy

Bluecoat93 on 2004-02-04T23:34:47

Seems like you could do this pretty easily with a wrapper around 'at' and 'mail', making use of Verizon's "mail to SMS" functionality. For instance (untested):

open( AT, "|at now + 4 hours" ) or die;
print AT q( echo "Time to walk the dog" | mail -s Alarm yournumber@vtext.com );
close AT;

The ericsson sounds like a plan :-)

afresh1 on 2004-02-05T00:17:43

The Salling Clicker sounds really kewl, I have a T608 and it isn't actually on the list tho so I haven't tried it.

I dunno if the T616 has bluetooth, but the bluetooth between my 12" PowerBook 1Ghz, my T608 and my Palm Tungsten T2 roxorZ! Wireless Internet, iSync, way kewl stuff!

I also have Nagios set up to page me, I set up qpage to page me instead of using the email to sms gateway from sprint because I didn't want to rely on the internet being up for it to page me and tell me the internet was broken.

Oh, and with the Bluetooth, my phone syncs through iSync to my palm address and datebook so it beeps when I have an appointment so I don't have to have schedules page me, although they could . . . :-)