If you didn't want to poll an internal IP from an external website you could build an AIR app.
Have the app installed on a couple of machines inside there network - the apps can talk to each other in realtime using the RMTP protocol for failover.
You could have the AIR app broadcast updates lots of different ways: Twiiter, SMS - via a HTTP gateway, Android C2DM, Twilio -might as well have a phonecall as well and not forgetting email. If you want a website as well then have the app post updates to an external webserver.
Or you may prefer to have the notification logic moved to the webserver depending on where you might get the most reuse.
One thing the AIR app can do is monitor a microphone so could potentially replace / backup the Arduino board.
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If you didn't want to poll an internal IP from an external website you could build an AIR app.
Have the app installed on a couple of machines inside there network - the apps can talk to each other in realtime using the RMTP protocol for failover.
You could have the AIR app broadcast updates lots of different ways: Twiiter, SMS - via a HTTP gateway, Android C2DM, Twilio -might as well have a phonecall as well and not forgetting email. If you want a website as well then have the app post updates to an external webserver.
Or you may prefer to have the notification logic moved to the webserver depending on where you might get the most reuse.
One thing the AIR app can do is monitor a microphone so could potentially replace / backup the Arduino board.