Pager Nagger

I use my phone as a pager when I'm on-call at work. The Pre's notification tone is way too short and quiet to wake me up. Here's a script that will nag you by playing a .wav file every minute while you have unread messages. The latest version also vibrates and blinks the LEDs.

Prerequisites

 * Root access
 * Crond enabled

Script code

 * 1) !/bin/sh

SOUND=/media/internal/ringtones/pager.wav LIGHT=1 BUZZ=1

check { cmd='SELECT summary FROM com_palm_messaging_data_ChatThread WHERE unreadCount > 0 AND type = "SMS" AND summary != "";' output=$(echo $cmd|sqlite3 /var/luna/data/dbdata/PalmDatabase.db3 2> /dev/null) || return 0 if [ -n "$output" ] ; then return 1 fi }

play { x=0 until [ "$x" = 4 ] ; do               aplay -q "$SOUND" & y=1 if [ "$BUZZ" = 1 ] ; then /usr/bin/luna-send -n 1 palm://com.palm.vibrate/vibrate {\"period\":1,\"duration\":1000\} > /dev/null 2>&1 z=10 else z=12 fi if [ "$LIGHT" = 1 ] ; then until [ "$y" = "$z" ] ; do				sleep 1 echo 00 >/sys/class/leds/core_navi_left/brightness echo 100 >/sys/class/leds/core_navi_center/brightness echo 00 >/sys/class/leds/core_navi_right/brightness sleep 1 echo 80 >/sys/class/leds/core_navi_left/brightness echo 00 >/sys/class/leds/core_navi_center/brightness echo 80 >/sys/class/leds/core_navi_right/brightness sleep 1 echo 00 >/sys/class/leds/core_navi_left/brightness echo 60 >/sys/class/leds/core_navi_center/brightness echo 00 >/sys/class/leds/core_navi_right/brightness sleep 1 echo 40 >/sys/class/leds/core_navi_left/brightness echo 00 >/sys/class/leds/core_navi_center/brightness echo 40 >/sys/class/leds/core_navi_right/brightness sleep 1 echo 00 >/sys/class/leds/core_navi_left/brightness echo 00 >/sys/class/leds/core_navi_center/brightness echo 00 >/sys/class/leds/core_navi_right/brightness check if [ "$?" = 1 ] ; then y=$((y+1)) else exit 0 fi done x=$((x + 1)) else sleep 60 check if [ "$?" = 1 ] ; then x=$((x + 1)) else exit 0 fi fi

done }

if [ ! -f "$SOUND" ] ; then SOUND=/usr/palm/sounds/alert.wav fi

check || play

Installation
mkdir -p /opt/scripts
 * 1) Copy a .wav file to /media/internal/ringtones/pager.wav (or to the ringtones directory in USB mode).

chmod +x /opt/scripts/pager rootfs_open -w
 * 1) Copy the script to /opt/scripts/pager.


 * 1) Add the following line to /etc/cron/crontabs/root:


 * /5 * * * * /opt/scripts/pager

Remember to copy a .wav file to /media/internal/ringtones/pager.wav.

To Do/Bugs
As the message is marked read in the database when it is closed, the sound will continue to play every minute until the messaging app is closed (or until that chat card is closed if you've done the Create a new card for each conversation mod).

Acknowledgments
Thanks to Sargun for the tracking script which inspired the layout of the code, as well as started me looking at the databases.

This is great thanks!!