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Good thinking! However, the filters allowed in OE6 do not include Run. So no such luck


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This will allow you to read the feed from gmail, and you can read all the subjects/message bodys....however, as previously stated, avoiding running the same 'command' repeatedly is an issue. To work around this, you could also read the <issued> tag and save that to an ini file (or w/e you like...) which you reference when you run a command to make sure you haven't run that command (with the same date) previously. I'm not going to work on this right now, i have other things to do, however if it is not worked out when i get back, i will. Happy Scripting!

**Btw, i got that code from

http://www.autohotkey.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=17963&highlight=email+read

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...I didn't know you were still using SMS when you said...


...I thought that meant Internet on your phone. You can only send the commands from your phone with SMS?


...I meant installing your own blog, on your own web server, would be overkill. Perhaps a private Twitter account (or DMing yourself?) would be less overkill than Blogger? If you can post to Twitter (or DM) as an "SMS"?

Do you not have any web server you have access too?

If the commands are coming from SMS, then I'm not sure I can help. I don't know how to link into them...cept the AIM thing you already tried. Does it count as "SMS" if you send to an E-mail address? Apparently, you can send to AIM as an SMS. If you can send to an E-mail from your phone as SMS...& also if you have a web server that can read that E-mail...THEN, you could continue on some of the web server/PHP route I mentioned.


...what about Thunderbird?...& why do people use OE? it's just like IE, it's crap!

Google gave me this

http://tech-tweak.com/2009/12/control-your-computer-through-sms-free-of-cost.html

Not with AHK I know but it indicates that Twitter might be an avenue for investigation.

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See https://www.netzclub.net/ . I don't know if there is a provider outside of Germany though.

Just thinking out loud here, but couldn't a script be devised to auto refresh a twitter feed and use httpquery to look for a specific hashtag? 5. maybe 10, minute interval w/s delay?

At one point I ventured into this realm and found it to not be very useful for me. However, what I did actually worked quite well.

I gave my script on my PC a few key words to look for in my Windows Live Messenger status. Each key word executed a command and then sent a confirmation email with a time stamp. With Hotmail, you can sync your Hotmail up and receive a text message whenever you get an email. So, that's how I knew my command executed successfully. I don't have a smartphone either. It's all via texting. It actually works very well.

I stopped working on it because I just really didn't have need for it.

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I am actually doing this very thing using a variety of things working together.

Here is what I use.
1. Android phone with Tasker App
This app lets you do http get or http posts. So, I created a task that whenever I receive a text message, it will post the sender name, sender phone number, sms time, and sms body to a php page I created. This page just validates a token I built in and as long as it sees it as me, will then take the posted variables and save them to a mysql database.
2. I am making some good use of this library by panofish: http://www.autohotkey.com/forum/topic77860.html
I have an ahk script that checks my database every 2 seconds for "new" data. (I just use a boolean that is changed once the text has been received by ahk).
3. I then have a tooltip notify me of the new text. The sms message that was retrieved from the mysql database is encrypted and appended to a text file on my computer. I then have a second script that launches a gui with listview of each of my texts. I can see who its from, the time it was recieved, and the message.

I made the listview so when you double click, it opens up a second gui allwoing you to "reply" to the sender. This will then save the reply to the mysql database.
4. Now I'm just trying to figure out how to make my phone grab this info easily and send the text for me.

That is how i stumbled across this thread. I am looking at the possibility of sending the sms straight from ahk rather than going through all that other junk.

Any ideas?

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@smikkelsen

That is actually a great idea! I like it, however I wish to use methods that only rely on SMS, and do not require Internet access on the phone.

You know what, I acrually came accross another method that I am going to switch to. You still have to have a smart phone because it is by using the app "android notifier". I think there might be an iphone version too.

it connects to your computer using either bluetooth, wifi (just connect to same wifi network as your computer) and they are implementing usb support as well so you could just plug phone into computer.

Here is what I tried with it:
When u receive a text it can notify your computer. On the computer end you can run custom tasks. I just created an ahk script and had the androud notifier launch this script and pass the text info as params. Once your script has that, your imagination is the limit.

I just text myself and it works the same as if someone else texred me. Then on the scriot side of course you could make it so only certain phone numbers can launch your code, etc

Also no need to have scriot running because the notifier will launch ahk when needed.

Hope that helps! It has opened a lot of doors for me.

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