How To: Connect to Your System Remotely Sending an SMS Through Contusa

Contusa is a simple java interface which helps you to connect to your system remotely by sending an SMS. All you need to have is a working Twitter account. Contusa is written in java; The core part is a Twitter API wrapper based on java (it is available on thinktankmaths). The basic idea of contusa is very simple . You have a set of commands configured against particular keyword (sms code). We need contusa on the end machine contusa keeps on listening to your twitter account, and whenever it finds a new status on the twitter account it checks its pre configured command library .if it finds any match, it starts executing the particular code against the status.

How to Configure Twitter for Your Mobile

Well its very easy.

• Go to your twitter account, log in.
• Check for settings -> devices . Register your mobile with twitter.com or configure your IM also.

Set Up

• Step 1: Download Contusa zip ball from sourceforge site, unzip it and go to the directory that you unzipped.
• Step 2: Launch Contusa , using the following command
  java -jar /path/contusa.jar
• Step 3: When you run contusa for the first time , you need to provide twitter with a username and passsword (twitter account)
• Step 4: Now configure code in the config section under the tools menu. Just add commands and their corresponding SMS short texts that you are going to send from your mobile phone.
  You can also check the command configured so far through check button
• Step 5: once the steps are done restart contusa (close and reopen it)

now you can test the functioning by sending an sms or by updating status manually in twitter.

The screenshot have been taken remotely by sending an SMS via cell phone.

[Source: dotnetspider.com]