[ale] Ring, ring, it's your computer calling. Your process has completed.

[Neal Rhodes]

Maybe I'm missing something.   I do this all the time by having our
servers email <myphonenumber>@vtext.com.    Converts to an SMS message. 

Just make darn sure you throttle the number of messages.   It's no fun
to get 60 text messages a minute when it really goes off into the
weeds. 

I'd rather get an SMS text message I can read whilst otherwise occupied,
versus an audio I have to listen to. 

Neal 

On Mon, 2012-12-10 at 09:33 -0500, Dennis Ruzeski wrote:

> I'd be very interested in this! I  recently took a job with a place
> that does alot of VOIP stuff and some quick and dirty one-liners that
> might help troubleshooting would be a great.
> 
> On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 9:27 AM, Pete Hardie <pete.hardie at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Sounds cool!
> >
> > Pete Hardie
> > --------
> > Better Living Through Bitmaps
> >
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 9:15 AM, Richard Bronosky <richard at bronosky.com>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> For the ATT mobile hackathon on the 30th I made a project that uses call
> >> management web APIs. (Because it increased the prize pool from $300 to $500.
> >> This was a good choice as I ended up winning first prize.)
> >>
> >> One of the gems was that I learned how to use a simple curl command to
> >> call my phone. Now, doing something useful with that call (text to speech,
> >> speech to text, or IVR menu tree) gets pretty complex, however making the
> >> call can be pretty powerful alone. Let's say you put curl command in a
> >> script named "callme". You can then go:
> >> rsync /path server:/path || callme
> >>
> >> Then, if that rsync command that you expected to take 4 hours fails, you
> >> get a call and don't lose half your day. Or, you can use a semicolon instead
> >> of the double pipe and it calls you no matter what. There will be no one on
> >> the other end of the call, but in this most basic form it is still pretty
> >> useful.
> >>
> >> With a little bit more work I ought to be able to make it except an
> >> argument that gets passed to the text to speech API. Then you could use it
> >> for alerts of a less binary nature:
> >> callme "I just met you and this is crazy"
> >>
> >> (If you get that joke, I hope you have young girls at home.)
> >>
> >> Would anyone be interested in seeing this? It'll take a little effort to
> >> prepare.
> >>
> >>
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