Re: [gentoo-user] Can emerge play a sound on either a successful/unsuccessful build?

["J. Roeleveld" <joost@antarean.org>]

On 16 July 2014 18:46:16 CEST, galiza.ceive@gmail.com wrote:
>"J. Roeleveld" <joost@antarean.org> writes:
>
>> On Monday, July 14, 2014 12:46:48 PM Neil Bothwick wrote:
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>>> I actually have it send an alert to my phone with Posterous but you
>> can
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>>> do whatever you want.
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>> Which "Posterous" is this?
>>
>> When I google it, I only get information that it actually got shut
>> down after being bought by Twitter.
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>>  
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>> I am looking for a cheap method to get notifications to my mobile
>> phone. I used to use a free SMS service via a company in SA.
>>
>
>Maybe Telegram[1] fits your needs. You'd need:
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>- The appropriate client on the phone side.
>- Telegram CLI [2] on the computer.
>- A little shell script, such as (usage: script USER MESSAGE)
>  #!/bin/sh
>  /path/to/telegram -B -k /path/to/tg.pub <<AAA
>
>  msg $1 $2
>  safe_quit
>  AAA
>You could also send logfiles (^msg^send_text, $2 being the path to text
>  file)
>
>HTH
>
>[1] http://www.telegram.org
>[2] https://github.com/vysheng/tg
>
>
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>> JOOST
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>>

This and pushover look interesting.

But I also need something that doesn't require a data connection.
I am occasionally in places with bad reception and SMS is often still usable. Never mind the cost of maintaining a data connection while roaming. (Receiving SMS is free in any country I care to visit with my contract)

I don't mind paying for the service. But it needs to be affordable.

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