automated phone call from skype?

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 08:26:39AM -0400, Peter Smerdon 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.

Plug an old modem into a serial port and call the cell phone from cron?

Or if you don't want to always get up at fixed times, schedule it using
at as appropriate.

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Len Sorensen
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