Re: Idea for new xAP software

["Mark Harrison (Groups)" <mph@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Paul Gale wrote:

> How about an ‘Outlook Connector’ that would connect to your account
> and provide the following:
>
> ·       Appointment reminders that can be sent to various devices and
TTS
> ·       Alarm calls, again based on custom appointments etc
> ·       Notification of new emails – again sent to a device or TTS –
> option to only announce certain emails based on an Outlook rule or
> those moved to a particular folder?
>
> ·       Integration of contacts folder(s) so that CLID would bring up
> contact names and send to a device or TTS
>
> Wouldn’t this be a great piece of software – truly integrating HA into
> your everyday life J
>
> I’ve been looking to do these for a long time – still not found
> anything yet.
>
> Anyone fancy having a go a writing something?
>
It's the first xAPplication I ever wrote :-)

At least, the bit that did reminders, alarms, and new emails.

However, then I left that employer, stopped using Outlook and mothballed
the code ( I now use Thunderbird.) I'll try to see if I've still got a
copy lying about anywhere.

Patrick has written something that handles contacts folders and
integrates with the xAP stuff he's done for the Asterisk voicemail
server, so he can call an outgoing person from his PC using xAP... I'm
not sure whether that's documented. I'll gently prod him and see.

Regards,

Mark