Here's an interesting challenge. Another no-budget project. I have some remote equipment that I need to occasionally receive an alarm alert from. The equipment provides a contact closure in an alarm condition. In the past for this type of thing, I used an old autodialer that simply picked up a phone line, dialed a number, and played a recorded message.
In this situation, I do not have access to an old style POTS line. I would prefer a text message, potentially to multiple recipients. There is a local network with Internet available. I know there are services like Google voice that can send text messages over the Internet. I do not have access to an SMTP server that can send external email. I was thinking of something like a Raspberry Pi to detect the contact closure and make the notification. I'm just not sure of the software mechanism to do so. Any ideas appreciated. Michael _______________________________________________ PLUG: https://pdxlinux.org PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
