I did several searches and didn't find anything like this so forgive me if I missed it.

Has anyone created a script that responds to an email trigger by returning an email with all device statuses? I'd love to be able to check on my home from my blackberry. Web access is tricky, and I don't feel like messing with DynDNS.

Thanks in advance.

Joseph

Hi Joseph,

I haven't seen a script that does this. The script "example - list devices.scpt" would be a good starting place though -- it enumerates through all of the devices and writes them to a log. This could be modified to instead send the device states in an email. You will need to use the Apple Mail program to send the message instead of Indigo's built-in SMTP client, but there is a sample of how to do that on this post.

Regards,
Matt

I have a script which would be a good starting point.

When Indigo see's an email from a certain address with the subject 'Status' it will enumerate all devices and get their status and return then in an email to me.

The script is on my home computer though, and I am at work right now, so I will try and post it later today or tonight.

Sorry it took so long. Forgot about my reply that I would post my sample code. I use this, though this could also serve as a good starting point to making an even better script. It uses the default profile in the OS X Mail Application.

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set deviceNames to {}
set deviceStates to {}
set deviceLastChangedList to {}
set deviceDoesDimList to {}
set deviceBrightnessList to {}
set test to ""

tell application "Indigo"
   repeat with curDevice in devices
      if (display in remote ui of curDevice) is true then
         if (on state of curDevice) is true then
            set onOff to "On"
         else
            set onOff to "Off"
         end if
         set test to test & name of curDevice & " - " & onOff & " (" & brightness of curDevice & "%)" & return
      end if
   end repeat
   
end tell

tell application "Mail"
   set addrVar to "destination@yourdomain.com"
   set subjectvar to "House Status at " & (current date)
   set newMessage to (a reference to (make new outgoing message))
   tell newMessage
      make new to recipient at beginning of to recipients with properties {address:addrVar}
      set the subject to subjectvar
      set the content to test
   end tell
   send newMessage
end tell

support wrote:Hi Joseph,

I haven't seen a script that does this. The script "example - list devices.scpt" would be a good starting place though -- it enumerates through all of the devices and writes them to a log. This could be modified to instead send the device states in an email. You will need to use the Apple Mail program to send the message instead of Indigo's built-in SMTP client, but there is a sample of how to do that on this post.

Regards,
Matt

The External IP plugin *will* support emailing the external IP address, as soon as the Indigo Server supports the indigo.server.sendEmailTo command.

Why am I not using an external email script or applescript to control Apple Mail? It's much more complex, and in my experience Applescript & Apple Mail can be unreliable.

- Benjamin