07-15-2013, 12:27 AM
I'm sorry for your loss...
Presuming your remote computer is on a standard ISP (cable or telco) and has the router has a dynamic IP address that changed, once upon a time I'd set up a script that ran with iChat that merely checked and responded with that IP when it received a message from a certain user.
I think I maybe needed some kind of plugin for iChat to do that, not sure if the same framework is available for Messages these days. But if it is, you may even be able to trigger this same script to activate remote access automatically so it's not sitting on all the time.
Pah!
An easier way would likely be to use iCloud and Back to My Mac to remote in. Don't know what I was thinking, I did this so long ago it predates that feature!
Presuming your remote computer is on a standard ISP (cable or telco) and has the router has a dynamic IP address that changed, once upon a time I'd set up a script that ran with iChat that merely checked and responded with that IP when it received a message from a certain user.
I think I maybe needed some kind of plugin for iChat to do that, not sure if the same framework is available for Messages these days. But if it is, you may even be able to trigger this same script to activate remote access automatically so it's not sitting on all the time.
Pah!
An easier way would likely be to use iCloud and Back to My Mac to remote in. Don't know what I was thinking, I did this so long ago it predates that feature!