Gajim D-Bus SMS script
Sometimes I get bored on the weekends, and I just couldn’t stand having something new without geeking it up.
So, last night, I wrote a script that hooks into gajim (my IM client) via D-Bus (an interprocess communication interface) to send text messages to my phone when I’m set to away. It actually sends emails, since Virgin Mobile is nice enough to provide a free service that sends texts to your phone whenever someone sends an email to [yournumber]@vmobile.ca. I put a little more work into it this morning, to add an icon that shows up in the notification area, so I can toggle whether or not I want my messages to be forwarded or not.
Possible upcoming features: some sort of spam or flood protection, automated responses telling the sender that messages are going to my phone.
For anyone that is interested in the code for this sort of thing, you can find it on its gitweb page. It is written in python and is licensed with zlib/libpng.
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Did you ever try enabling IM forwarding @ aim.com?
Comment by sponge — June 30, 2008 @ 9:20 pm
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