[mythtv-users] sms/email interface

[Brad DerManouelian]

> On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 11:09 PM, Christopher X. Candreva
> <chris at westnet.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, 20 Nov 2008, MailingListJ wrote:
>>
>>> does anybody have any ideas for an sms interface for mythtv.  Or an
>>> email interface, any interface which doesn't involve web  
>>> traffic..... or
>>> at least a way that i can get involved and write one to contribute?
>>
>> I was just thinking about that. I've written some AIM bots in the  
>> past, and
>> was thinking about an AIM and/or Jabber (Google talk etc) bot that  
>> would let
>> me talk to my Myth machine. I had gotten as far as looking at the  
>> telnet
>> interface, but hadn't actually come up with what I wanted to do  
>> with it.
>>
>> I suppose one might want to ask for status info (like the Status  
>> screen of
>> Mythweb), and possibly receive asynchronous notifications, such as  
>> IMs when
>> recordings or jobs start/stop.

Have you seen mythmail in the contrib directory? I use a modified  
version of it to mail me error messages from the log files. It may be  
a good starting point.