Actions triggered by email/SMS gateway

[Jopkins]

Hi IOBridgers.

I was just wondering if it was possible to trigger an action by email or SMS? I have an AlertMe system which notifies events via email or SMS and was hoping to link it to my IOBridge - so that when a sensor goes off, I can notify my IOBridge to do a pre-programmed action (in this case relay switch).

AlertMe also has an API so I'm pretty sure there's some room for some code tweaking - but before I go deep wanted to know if anyone had done this yet or there was a shortcut you could point me to.

http://www.alertme.com/

Cheers! All help really appreciated.

[zero*gx]

if you have a webserver, you code something using the php api for the iobridge on your server. afaik, there isnt an sms/email bridge already made...

or you can look at @mattsoffice on twitter. he controls his iobridge using the php api on his server using tweets. you could setup the same thing, and then use something like twittermail to direct the emails to twitter

[Jopkins]

cheers for your reply. hoping that there is an easy way - looks like I need to go deep in the code. will share  . . .

[zero*gx]

The guy on twitter has released the code, so at least most of the work would be done... mostly editing variables to match what your needs are.

Please do share... that would be awesome. if you need any help, post here.

[Jopkins]

Will do . To be honest . . . I'm going to have to get some help on this. Hoping that someone out there knows more than I do ;-)

[zero*gx]

i do some web coding type stuff... mostly html/css/cms stuff. i know a little bit of php, enough to do some stuff, so i will try to help as possible.