On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 11:26 AM, Phil Wild <philwild at gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Oliver,
Whoops! , I just reread your message and understand your comment better now - when I first read it I didn't realise you were making comment on a solution where someone was emailing an sms through a mail gateway rather than an direct sms based soln.
I think your comments are still valid - sending SMS directly from your Hobbit server would work even if your building services were completely cut off, provided the machine had at least a couple of minutes runtime on a UPS.
I'm thinking about rolling my own home alarm system, and if I can work it into the budget for it I may include one of these bad boys:
http://www.gm862.com/en/products/gsm-gprs.php?p_id=12&p_ac=show&p=4
I can add another phone to my family plan for $10/mo and not have to rely on the phone/DSL to get alerts out.
Ralph Mitchell