Elk M1 < receive emails, run task

[joel7269]

Hi,

I tried searching everywhere for this but no luck.

Is there a way to setup the ELK M1 Gold to be able to receive emails and then run a task? If not is there any device I could add that would give me that function?

I have a few idea's where I'd like to be able to simply email my system to have it perform a task.

Thanks,
Joel

 

[wuench]

There is no way to do this with the M1 alone.  It is only capably of sending email and even that is limited.   It could probably be done fairly easily with any HA software package that has an Elk plugin and email support.  As far as some sort of "device" I can't think of one, I don't see a way to do it with an ISY.  Perhaps a vera?

 

[42etus]

M1ToGo can run tasks directly. If that would work for you

 

[tmbrown97]

nothing off the shelf but I bet it'd be a fun project to run on an arduino or beagleboard or pi even.  A little more work upfront but still fun and doable.

 

[FlyingDiver]

nothing off the shelf but I bet it'd be a fun project to run on an arduino or beagleboard or pi even.  A little more work upfront but still fun and doable.

 
Yeah, the parsing of the email is trivial on an rPi, and a single contact closure for a relay wouldn't be hard.  Opposite on an Arduino - relay contact is trivial, getting the email and parsing it is harder.  I've never done anything with a beagleboard.   

 

[tmbrown97]

I would imagine that instead of contact closure a connection would be made either serially or over TCP/IP - that way additional rules could be added that performed different tasks.

 

[FlyingDiver]

I would imagine that instead of contact closure a connection would be made either serially or over TCP/IP - that way additional rules could be added that performed different tasks.

 
D'oh.  I was conflating this thread with the one about turning on a PC via serial - ie, a contact closure for a relay.  So yeah, you're right, serial or IP connection from the rPi to the Elk is the way to go.

 

[pete_c]

Here have been playing a bit with a firmware updated tiny TP-Link microrouter.  It has multiple USB ports (got the serial pieces working) and two NICs and wireless.  I have installed OpenWrt on it and its running fine.  Not a whole bunch of built in space to play (32mb).  I am playing with it some as I have not really used OpenWRT over the years (mostly DD-WRT for the modded off the shelf routers).  You can do a 3G/4G connection with it and it does have wireless 802.11 built in to it.
 
In recap it has two NICs, USB (serial works fine), JTAG and wireless in a smaller footprint than the rPI.
 
I have only done one hardware modification to it relating to the power input changing it from 120VAC to 12VDC.  I still want to add a direct serial connection (JTAG like) which is easy to do.
 
I am mentioning this device because it already is in a tiny case.  I did purchase it for less than $30. 
 
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