Using mutt & cron To Text Yourself The Weather
I have a flip phone (it’s much less distracting than a smartphone), so I cannot use an app or a browser to check the weather when getting dressed in the morning. I tried NOAA’s dial-a-forecast, but the number for my state is out of service.
So, I decided to make a script that texts me the weather. This was surprisingly simple. It broke down into three steps:
- Get the weather
- Text it to myself
- Automate that
This post assumes that you have email working on a system-level. Since setting that up is out-of-scope for this post, you can either do it yourself or get an account on a pubnix.