Re: Use of a FreeRunner
I'm sure it could; your FreeRunner is a complete computer. The question is if you have the time (or money to hire someone) to write the glue script that will put all the pieces together. Let's see, the parts you'll need are: 1. Check your mail account (fetchmail or python's imaplib) 2. Do a regex check to see if it's important (egrep/python/perl/awk/...) 3. Convert it to SMS format 3a. MIME extract (munpack or python's email package) 3b. Optionally remove HTML markup (lynx -dump or Beautiful Soup's get_text() function) 4. Send it as an SMS messages (dbus to FSO works but may not be best practices) —B On Sat, Dec 21, 2013 at 2:58 AM, Philip Rhoades p...@pricom.com.au wrote: People, I have not used my FreeRunner for ages and probably should donate it someone who can make use of it but a thought occurred to me: It would be good to have something that could act like a SMS server eg I have a demand where if an (urgent) email comes into a particular account, that the contents of the email are able to be resent as an SMS out through a mobile device gateway to a number of phones - could OpenMoko be rejigged to do this somehow? Regards, Phil. -- Philip Rhoades GPO Box 3411 Sydney NSW 2001 Australia E-mail: p...@pricom.com.au ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: Use of a FreeRunner
Ben, On 2013-12-23 09:26, Ben Wong wrote: I'm sure it could; your FreeRunner is a complete computer. The question is if you have the time (or money to hire someone) to write the glue script that will put all the pieces together. Let's see, the parts you'll need are: 1. Check your mail account (fetchmail or python's imaplib) 2. Do a regex check to see if it's important (egrep/python/perl/awk/...) I can do those bits. 3. Convert it to SMS format 3a. MIME extract (munpack or python's email package) 3b. Optionally remove HTML markup (lynx -dump or Beautiful Soup's get_text() function) and probably those bits - actually now that I think about it - there would always just be a little bit of text (the messages would always be coming from a phone message service) with an appended WAV file so it would have to be MMS rather that SMS . . 4. Send it as an SMS messages (dbus to FSO works but may not be best practices) This is the bit I know nothing about . . Thanks, Phil. —B On Sat, Dec 21, 2013 at 2:58 AM, Philip Rhoades p...@pricom.com.au wrote: People, I have not used my FreeRunner for ages and probably should donate it someone who can make use of it but a thought occurred to me: It would be good to have something that could act like a SMS server eg I have a demand where if an (urgent) email comes into a particular account, that the contents of the email are able to be resent as an SMS out through a mobile device gateway to a number of phones - could OpenMoko be rejigged to do this somehow? Regards, Phil. -- Philip Rhoades GPO Box 3411 Sydney NSW 2001 Australia E-mail: p...@pricom.com.au ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community -- Philip Rhoades GPO Box 3411 Sydney NSW 2001 Australia E-mail: p...@pricom.com.au ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: Use of a FreeRunner
On Sun, Dec 22, 2013 at 11:43 PM, Philip Rhoades p...@pricom.com.au wrote: Ben, On 2013-12-23 09:26, Ben Wong wrote: I'm sure it could; your FreeRunner is a complete computer. The question is if you have the time (or money to hire someone) to write the glue script that will put all the pieces together. Let's see, the parts you'll need are: 1. Check your mail account (fetchmail or python's imaplib) 2. Do a regex check to see if it's important (egrep/python/perl/awk/...) I can do those bits. 3. Convert it to SMS format 3a. MIME extract (munpack or python's email package) 3b. Optionally remove HTML markup (lynx -dump or Beautiful Soup's get_text() function) and probably those bits - actually now that I think about it - there would always just be a little bit of text (the messages would always be coming from a phone message service) with an appended WAV file so it would have to be MMS rather that SMS . . 4. Send it as an SMS messages (dbus to FSO works but may not be best practices) This is the bit I know nothing about . . Thanks, Phil. Sending SMS using FSO is very easy: http://git.freesmartphone.org/?p=specs.git;a=blob_plain;f=html/org.freesmartphone.GSM.SMS.html;hb=HEAD#SendTextMessage You can use mdbus2 or dbus-send, or any dbus binding for your language of choice. SendTextMessage even handles multi-part messages automatically for you. I'm not aware of any existing MMS implementation for FSO. Cheers, -- Sebastian Krzyszkowiak, dos http://dosowisko.net/ ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Use of a FreeRunner
People, I have not used my FreeRunner for ages and probably should donate it someone who can make use of it but a thought occurred to me: It would be good to have something that could act like a SMS server eg I have a demand where if an (urgent) email comes into a particular account, that the contents of the email are able to be resent as an SMS out through a mobile device gateway to a number of phones - could OpenMoko be rejigged to do this somehow? Regards, Phil. -- Philip Rhoades GPO Box 3411 Sydney NSW 2001 Australia E-mail: p...@pricom.com.au ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: Use of a FreeRunner
On Sat, Dec 21, 2013 at 12:34 PM, Ed Kapitein e...@kapitein.org wrote: Hi Phil, I did the same thing, but It is of limited use, a lot of mail is in HTML format and hard to convert to SMS. Also, you need to strip the headers etc. So you might want to write a script first and run it on real-life mails, before you put effort in reconfiguring the freerunner. Like these? http://beaker.mailchimp.com/html-to-text http://journals.jevon.org/users/jevon-phd/entry/19818 http://www.chuggnutt.com/html2text http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/11902/Convert-HTML-to-Plain-Text in Python http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13337528/rendered-html-to-plain-text-using-python http://love-python.blogspot.no/2011/04/html-to-text-in-python.html lynx can also be used. -- Regards, Torfinn Ingolfsen ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: Use of a FreeRunner
On Sat 21 December 2013 12:34:49 Ed Kapitein wrote: On 12/21/2013 11:58 AM, Philip Rhoades wrote: People, I have not used my FreeRunner for ages and probably should donate it someone who can make use of it but a thought occurred to me: It would be good to have something that could act like a SMS server eg I have a demand where if an (urgent) email comes into a particular account, that the contents of the email are able to be resent as an SMS out through a mobile device gateway to a number of phones - could OpenMoko be rejigged to do this somehow? Regards, Phil. Hi Phil, I did the same thing, but It is of limited use, a lot of mail is in HTML format and hard to convert to SMS. Also, you need to strip the headers etc. So you might want to write a script first and run it on real-life mails, before you put effort in reconfiguring the freerunner. Just my 0.02BTC Kind regards, Ed Plain HTML mails are usually forwarded to /dev/null by my spam filter right away. I haven't recently seen anybody but Jolla sending HTML-only mails instead of proper multipart/alternative at least. Also you shouldn't regularly watch mails by rendering their HTML content, this is a severe privacy and security threat. /j -- () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments (alas the above page got scrapped due to resignation(!!), so here some supplementary links:) http://www.georgedillon.com/web/html_email_is_evil.shtml http://www.nonhtmlmail.org/campaign.html http://www.georgedillon.com/web/html_email_is_evil_still.shtml http://www.gerstbach.at/2004/ascii/ (German) signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
