Slack server IM to cell phone?

linuxhippy · 11-05-2006, 06:38 AM

My Slackware 11 server is always connected to the internet with a DSL router. I have an old Nokia 1100 Tracfone that is able to get text messages. I found a site that can IM my cell phone over the net. What I want to do is have my Slacware box grab weather info each day and then IM that info to my cell. Is this possible?

MS3FGX · 11-05-2006, 12:08 PM

I don't know if your service is similar, but with my cellphone provider, text messages are handled just like email.

There is a domain (vtext.com, I think). And you just send an email to the number with the domain tacked on, like 12345678@vtext.com.

If that is the case for you as well, then you can sent email out to the phone with a simple script. For example, I have used this script to send HDD usage text messages to my phone by just plugging in the appropriate email address.

Code:

#!/usr/bin/perl
#
# Script to check HDD use and mail to to an address.

$HOST=`cat /etc/HOSTNAME`;
chomp($HOST);
@retval=`df -h`;
$dt=`date`;
chomp($dt);
open(MAIL,"|/usr/lib/sendmail -t");
print MAIL "From: diskusage\@mydomain.com\n";
print MAIL "To: me\@mydomain.com\n";
print MAIL "Subject: Disk Space ($HOST)\n";
print MAIL "\n";
print MAIL "@retval\n\n";
print MAIL "$HOST\n";
close (MAIL);

linuxhippy · 11-05-2006, 04:03 PM

thanks for that script. Now I need to figure out how to IM my cell with Tracfone. 1234567890@tracfone.com doesn't work. This site will IM Tracfones:

http://jasonholm.com/tracfone.html

Any idea how it works or if I could incorporate it into that script for Slackware Linux?

EDIT: Also, it's an sms service.

keefaz · 11-05-2006, 04:42 PM

Maybe check curl

Code:

curl -d 'p_number=0123456789' \
-d 'message=Type Your Message Here' \
-d 'name=Your Name Here' \
http://jasonholm.com/cgi-bin/tracfone.cgi > result.html

Then see if the message was sent ok with the result.html...

linuxhippy · 11-05-2006, 05:01 PM

Success! I changed the phone # line to this

curl -d 'phonenumber=0123456789' \

The message size is limited to 160 characters. Any idea how to strip a 160 characters of text off a weather site and enter this into that script?

keefaz · 11-05-2006, 05:07 PM

Glad it worked, I made a confusion between the name
and the phone number field id

For limited length, you could use bash expansion

Code:

message='very long message here...'
message=${message:0:160}

linuxhippy · 11-05-2006, 05:59 PM

Here's a nice 3 day forecast in text...the banners and html need to be stripped. How could I do this and then put the resulting text file in the message field and then use the above limit of 160?

http://www.weather.com/weather/narra...nav_undeclared

EDIT:

Here's an all text forecast that wget won't get (not sure why):

http://www.erh.noaa.gov/forecast/Map...PHI&TextType=1

keefaz · 11-05-2006, 07:21 PM

For easy html stripping, I suggest :

Code:

lynx -dump http://www.weather.com/weather/narra...nav_undeclared

For the text forecast that wget won't get, I don't know it said :
'You have entered an invalid station id. An error has occurred. Exiting the script!'
I don't know, maybe it wants hidden field value or cookies, or something wrong
in the url variables...

linuxhippy · 11-06-2006, 06:41 PM

nice-I didn't know that lynx could do a dump. I did this:

lynx -dump http://www.weather.com/weather/narra...nav_undeclared > forecast

How can I have curl enter this forecast file into the message area?