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From: "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid>
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Subject: Re: sending a "beep" from computer to mobile phone?
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2023 18:01:50 +0200
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On 2023-03-28 03:26, Fritz Wuehler wrote:
> Carlos E.R. <robin_lis...@es.invalid> [CE]:
> CE> Do you know of an app, to be installed on an Android phone, that
> CE> can receive some kind of notification or ping from a Linux computer,
> CE> in the same LAN, from a script?
> 
> 
> If the phone is jail-broken and you can run shell scripts on it,
> a quick one-liner
> 	while :; do wget ... && beep; sleep 5; done
> should be all you need.

Nope, not the case.

And I fear it would waste the battery.

> If it's not, there are several options depending on whether the
> phone can talk to the net or not.
> 
> 
> No internet?  Use any regular SMTP client:
> 
> - Run a minimal SMTP server on another LAN box
> 
> - Configure the phone e-mail client to check for new messages on
>    the LAN SMTP server every N minutes

I have that, but not disimilar from using gmail. Another client wastes 
battery (K9 did, which is why I don't have it checking for email except 
on demand).

> 
> - Send messages to the phone using the LAN SMTP server
> 
> 
> If the phone is connected to the internet already, skip the
> LAN SMTP server.
> 
> If the phone is connected to the internet and no SMTP client is
> installed, install a chat application which has a public API
> (e.g. https://chatwork.com) and send (encrypted) messages from
> the linux box to the phone using the API.

That could be.

> 
> 
> 
> 
> Or, if you want to go full hard-core, check out the X10 home automation
> apps, after installing some compatible hub server on a LAN box.

Mmm.


I'm inclined to test <https://ntfy.sh/>, which seems very simple.

-- 
Cheers,
        Carlos E.R.