Weblog - Jan Wagemakers -

In MAY 2009 I wrote here about Free SMS notifications with gcalcli and google calendar .

Well, this wasn't working anymore I can add events with gcalcli to the calendar, but no reminder (SMS) is send.

But I have found a solution

At code.google.com you can download googlecl. New in googlecl 0.9.9 is "Reminders for added calendar events".

So, I have written a new sms script to send free (as in beer, gratis) sms notifications to my mobile phone.

 pts/12  jan ~$ cat sms
export LANG=C
DATE=`date -d "5 min" +%H:%M%p`
echo "$DATE $@"
google calendar add "$DATE $@" --reminder=4m 
 pts/12  jan ~$ sms "Free as in beer"
10:17AM Free as in beer
 pts/12  jan ~$