pic@gavin-egan.com wrote:
> Yeah sorry weird but I hadn't considered the openness of email over all the
> hops.
>
>   
I'd personally set up an email server on your Linux machine at home, and 
make sure you enable TLS. That way the message from your client to your 
home email server would be encrypted during transport. Then it could be 
as simple as a CRON that checks the message contents every 5 minutes or 
whatever and parses it.
Or on the Linux box at home set up something like OpenVPN to encrypt 
tunnels between your machine. It even has a Windows client (I've never 
tried the client on Vista though).
I personally have some web cams and relays all networked throughout the 
house that I use while out of town that are all automated. When I leave 
town for work/vacation I start the script. The web cams record motion at 
the doors and windows and the relays do thing like turn on lights and 
the stereo. I did think ahead a little and randomize the on-times for 
the lights and stereo. They get turned on at a random time during  a 45 
minute time frame.  And not all the same lights the same days. Took a 
little while to program it all out, but I feel it was well worth it. And 
if I want to tweak some stuff or watch the cams and look around for 
myself I VPN in to do so.
Just a thought.
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