automated phone call from skype?

[Christopher Browne]

On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 8:26 AM, Peter Smerdon <psmerdon-J4oS66wZXds at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> My new cellphone (motorola i885) does not come with an alarm clock, and
> there is no alarm clock app that I can download for it. I thought about
> signing up for a superscription wake up call service but then thought that
> perhaps Linux could solve this for me.
>
> At home I have an always on computer running ubuntu 8.04, is there a way
> I can send a skype call from the command line via cron to my cellphone
> every morning?
>
> I could just break down and buy a travel alarm but that's something else
> I have to lug around with me and plug in each night.

Assuming it can receive SMSes, then one of the simpler approaches to
this is to schedule an SMS using Google Calendar.  You can attach
alarms that involve sending SMS messages, and that does support
Canadian cellular providers.
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