Re: Text to X10 gateway?

[Jim Noble <yahoo-groups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Paul Gale wrote:
> A friend of mine wants to achieve this:
> "I want to have a juicer on stage with me and every time someone
texts me with great idea the juicer runs for 5 seconds and at the end of my
talk I have a glass of juice to drink.  I saw something similar done a few
weeks ago with a lamp and an X10 controller.  The chap used an apple mac
that received emails with "light on" in the subject, I want to do
the same with texts and already have them arriving as an email."
> Any ideas for the text message portion - easily and relatively
cheaply. Acting on texts with a particular subject would be good?
>

Any old linux box, a mobile phone with data cable, and:
http://www.kannel.org/
will give you the ability to perform arbitrary actions based on the
content of text messages received...

Jim


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