SITUATION: None of iPhone's physical buttons (except volume) are operational. Thus, can virtually only activate screen by receiving a notification.
Instead of simply getting the buttons repaired, I want to see if it can be an opportunity to learn.
PROJECT: Make a simple Pebble app in Cloud Pebble that will send an (arbitrary) basic notification to my iPhone, waking it up. That way, I can activate the screen remotely by, for example, clicking the Pebble middle 'Select' button. [SMS may do, but seems to be a long route compared to Bluetooth communication.]
Possible?
You can easily make an app that will use the Twilio API to send yourself an SMS. You could also use one of the services that sends you push notifications.