Greetings oh wise ones,

My mother is in her 90s and lives alone in her own apartment in a retirement home in the States. I live in Europe and would like to write a Perl script that calls her landline phone every morning at 9am (this could be on a cronjob). If she answers, the program should report success and exit; if no answer, then call 10 minutes later. If after 30 minutes there is no answer, then call a different number requesting that someone check her room.

My Skype account allows me to call Skype-to-landline for pennies, which is what I'm doing now manually. I searched for Skype on CPAN and found quite a number of modules described, but I thought it might save time asking here if someone knew just which module might be appropriate for what I'm trying to do.

Thanks in advance, Lou

In reply to using Skype by louhevly

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