I am planning on building a device that will trigger a Red Siren light when there are emails in a particular inbox.
I'd like to have the device check this email account via IMAP once every minute, and if there are emails in the inbox the light will be triggered.
I have done some initial googling and the closest project I could find is this one: http://www.instructables.com/id/Internet-Controlled-Desk-Lamp/?ALLSTEPS
This lamp is triggered via an Arduino when someone clicks a ON/OFF link on a web page. At this point I am thinking it wouldn't be too much trouble to use this existing code and create a separate script that will check the email account and trigger a GET request to the ON link until the inbox is cleared and on a subseqent check of the email account will trigger the OFF link.
Unless there are any other suggestions on a better board (if not the Arduino) or method of implementing this?
Thanks in advance for any/all suggestions,
-BassKozz
