While we try not to keep it too geeky here, because that would be the easiest way to expose what a fraud I am bore you, this little script from John Muehlhausen is too useful to pass over. It lets you, with a tiny bit of Python wrangling, add Iridium paging failover to compliment your existing pager, meaning you’ll have pager service anywhere in the world without cresting the 150 page-a-month limit of Iridium-only service.
Of course, you would have to wear two pagers and look sort of dorky, but if you’re already telling your computer to page you via a Python script you’re probably well past the gadget dork threshold (and good on you).
Oh, and it’s not limited to Iridium, either, so you could tweak to support a second terrestrial pager, so that if a message never makes it to the first pager, a second person could be contacted. SNPP is useful stuff.
Read – Skytel to Iridium Progression [mac.com/jogomu]
