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Zazen Pixel
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Join date: 30 Jan 2006
Posts: 1
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08-24-2006 10:53
Well - I've read all of the user guidelines for this forum...however I may somehow do something wrong with this suggestion post. Forgive me if I do please.
I was refreshing the "Grid Status" page yesterday (as most were) to see if the grid was back online after the code upgrade. I thought, "why not have an e-mail/sms texting system that automatically sent out emails if the Grid goes up or down?" I realize this is not as easy as it sounds, but it might be worthwhile...
Anyway, I would put more into a "propsal" but I wasn't sure if someone already wrote about this type of thing. I tried very hard to search for this in the forums, but found nothing with my search terms.
Please let me know what you think. I'll put more details into it if folks consider it a good idea or worthwhile. I mean - a lot of people live in the grid - so knowing when it's back up is always a plus. What better way to know than getting a text message on your phone or an email (assuming no lag). You could sign up on a page - configuring whatever email address or phone address you want, frequency, whatever...depending on how sophisticated LL wanted to get.
Well - that's about it. Just let me know whatcha think. Hey if someone wants to run with the idea too - feel free!
Namaste!
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Jesse Malthus
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Join date: 21 Apr 2006
Posts: 649
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08-25-2006 17:26
I wrote my own little script, called hpribot to signal my MPD music server to start playing when the grid came back up. It would be trivial to hook it up to a sms gateway.
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Major Johnson
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Join date: 7 Aug 2006
Posts: 5
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08-26-2006 10:44
In theory you could script an in world object to look at the clock every one minute and store the value. But just before storing the value it checks to see how much time has passed since the last check, that is subtract the stored time from the current time and then if it is more than a minute (significantly more, like, 5 minutes), send you an email.
Drop it inworld somewhere and you're golden. Of course it really only checks for that sim, but for a grid-wide update it'd send the expected email within a minute of the grid coming back up.
Hm. This is where "in theory" might not pan out. I don't know if scripts run while the grid is open to Lindens only, so the email might come when the grid comes oline, but not when it opens up to the public.
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