<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/11/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Ian Jackson</b> <<a href="mailto:ianjackson@shaw.ca">ianjackson@shaw.ca</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
About this whole touch tone thing and home automation control. I love<br>the Myth automation concept. Isn't that what myth is suppose to be<br>about? Mythical convergence? As far as touch tone activation, I've been<br>half following this thread.. Instead of touch tone magic, why not good
<br>old SMS?<br>In this summer issue of 2600 (I think). there is a short article on<br>using SMS to control your box.. It's sort of smart hack..Basically, it<br>takes advantage the fact that most phones can SMS email addresses.. I'll
<br>see if I can find/post the article if anybody is interested. It could<br>turn into a pretty useful tool if somebody put some time into a myth<br>interface.</blockquote><div><br>
Ultimetely, asterisk is where you'd want to be looking, but in the meantime...<br>
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I remember seeing some set of mail parsing scripts that allowed emails to perform commands on a host.<br>
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This isn't the one I was looking for, but something like this: <a href="http://unix.freshmeat.net/projects/mail2sh/">http://unix.freshmeat.net/projects/mail2sh/</a><br>
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Also, there's a GAIM plugin that allows remote command execution if
you're okay with the security implications of that.
<a href="http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1071005&group_id=235&atid=390395">http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1071005&group_id=235&atid=390395</a><br>
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I suppose you could use an IM Client on your phone to send the name of a short unix script.<br>
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But then again, many people today can also use ssh from their "phone"
to access a real shell on their mythtv box - or even just use a web
interface from their phone!<br>
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BTW, Ian... when you reply to emails it seems that your MUA is generating a new thread.<br>
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-Ross<br>
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