[GreenKeys] Speaking about ITTY...

[E.]

Something I’ve been saying for a while now… I would love to turn my 19 back to hammering out weather bulletins, like the previous owner had it doing back in the ‘70s.  Since I’m a warning officer for the area storm spotters, I would love for my weather radio to go off upstairs and by the time I get into the basement - to my radio - to be able to pull off the weather watch/warning/advisory for my county off of the 19 - to read over 2m… as opposed to having to try to fumble for the warning on my iPod to read, etc..  Hopefully someday down the road, something like that can come to light, since I am very much not so coding inclined :) ~


> On Aug 21, 2019, at 9:37 pm, Jeff G <jeffg at junknet.net> wrote:
> 
> In regards to the comment about using Twilio - rather than host a lamp stack in a cloud server, you can just run the code on an actual Raspberry PI (or any other computer really). I have a Twilio account and interact with it exclusively from Powershell on Windows, and even then it's literally only a few lines of code.
> 
> If there were an easy interface (perhaps that mini-modem) to interact with the Teletype, then perhaps a simple CLI for sending texts could be implemented easily using Twilio, or perhaps make a bridge program that can interact with a variety of text-based services through something like IFTTT/Zapier/MSFlow, where the idea is if you can get the data into one of those services, you can send it out via any number of already-built-and-ready-to-use outputs they provide, like Twitter for example, or Facebook (post to Facebook via your Teletype).
> 
> (After thinking about this a bit...this could be very doable with a pi zero w and some scripts) - the only "hard" part is the computer <> TTY interface, but if minimodem works good enough, that may be all that's required!) Maybe we just need a "GreenKeys Rasbpi distro".
> 
> Now it would be...REALLY COOL...to see something like the iTelex integrate with that idea, where it emulates all the motions of connecting up via a phone number (cell number), then having the opposite end be a cell phone/SMS. This may even extend to iMessage, but not sure if Apple opened an API for that yet or not.
> 
> Lastly...ITTY is da bomb! It was literally the first thing I got working when getting my first "real" teletype a few weeks ago, and let me tell you it was awesome to see the thing come to life! Only thing I'd say to change or improve it, would be perhaps to have a few additional streams/channels. While news is cool and has that vintage AP vibe (I would definitely leave that channel as-is), having a few other types of content would be neat, perhaps channels like "vintage" news or wires, or something nerdy like space/science news where perhaps a teacher can have one of these banging away for a bit in a classroom -grin-, and so on.
> 
> Jeff (aka Bags)
> KC3GJX
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