This post is to see if it is possible for those technically minded/skilled to maybe come together to create a new ‘Email Scanner’ Plugin for Vera, one that would then allow you to use your email account as a trigger for Vera.
Some great work looks to have already been done on an imap4.lua add on and there looks to be code to check email, including gmail. See here…
No reason at all, thanks for sharing, the idea/proposal/concept is to have a plugin that scans your email so you can look for triggers.
I’d personally love something to trigger/invoke a TTS call to tell me “You have just received an email from ”. And look for keywords in the subject line or the body too.
Anyway, the idea is out there now should someone (with the time/inclination) fancies taking it up.
If you use android the tasker app can trigger homebuddy scenes based on email subject line or sender of the email of the K9 email app for android. i have been doing this and it does work. I have a tasker task that when i get a email from Garmin that my dogs gps collar has gone outside of his geofence it activates a scene through homebuddy which is my sonos system tells me.
I know it seems like a lot to do but I was allready using all these apps anyway. I’m sure there is a easier way to accomplish this but this works fine for me.
[quote=“SteveZ, post:7, topic:174429”]If you use android the tasker app can trigger homebuddy scenes based on email subject line or sender of the email of the K9 email app for android. i have been doing this and it does work. I have a tasker task that when i get a email from Garmin that my dogs gps collar has gone outside of his geofence it activates a scene through homebuddy which is my sonos system tells me.
I know it seems like a lot to do but I was allready using all these apps anyway. I’m sure there is a easier way to accomplish this but this works fine for me. [/quote]
SteveZ, Can you post here screenshots of settings your Task in Tasker?
Here are the screenshots of the event and action in tasker. Also check the homebuddy sub forum in remote control section, there is a sticky of tasker integration with homebuddy that has a easy to follow video.
You can also use my android app AutHomationHD which the current beta as easier integration with Tasker and allows you to control devices and not just scenes via Tasker or Llama.
