ping-me

A Cross Platform personalized Ping

The beauty of ping-me is its command line interface. Get all of your reminders done just by a single line command on your favorite terminal screen. ping-me will surely ping you at that time, no matter you are online or not. It will get to you on your phone device, smart watch and even SMS in worst cases.

Stay Lazy, Stay Updated !

Installation

Current Release - 0.3

Step 1 : Installing package and dependencies

$ pip install ping-me

Make sure all the dependencies get installed properly while the installation.

Step 2 : Setting up cronjob (Not for windows, See step 3)

$ crontab -e

In the file, add the following lines

PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin
DISPLAY=:0.0

* * * * * get-ping

Make sure to leave a blank line at the end of the file.

Save and exit. The installation is complete.

See this for some explanation of the crontab

Step 3 : Chrome Extension

Download the chrome extension from here.

Log in with the credentials you used for ping-me. And we are done.

Note : ping-me will work even if all chrome windows are closed.

Usage

Use of flags

$ ping-me -d November-24-2015 -t 14:30 Get up and eat!

By default -d and -t accounts for datetime.today and 00:00 hours respectively. Go ahead and make experiments with the syntax.

No flags, pure language

$ ping-me to get up and eat tomorrow afternoon

Add -v flag at the end to see the verbose output.

Project Status

• ping-me identifies date, time and message using flags
• ping-me asks for configuration on first request
• ping-me stores the configuration on remote server
• ping-me stores the message with datetime stamp on the server
• Server activates the ping 50 seconds prior to its exact time
• Server ready for a GET request
• ping-me makes full use of natural language processing
• ping-me notifies through chrome/firefox extension
• ping-me works on linux
• ping-me works on windows
• ping-me works on OS X
• ping-me works on Android
• ping-me sends texts to phone
• ping-me ping-me works on ios
• ping-me works on Windows phone

Contribution : Please feel free to report bugs in the application. I'll try to fix them. Also, if either of javascript or android is your piece of cake, please contact me and we'll make things up real quick. Enjoy anyways!