Make Siri Do What You Want With SiriProxy On Mac OS X And iPad 3

I’ve been wanting to try out SiriProxy for some Arduino home automation projects, but I refuse to buy a new phone when my iPhone 4 is still working just fine (yes, I stopped using my HTC One X; 6 months with Android is more than enough for me). But then I realized; I have Siri already, on my iPad 3. Surely I could use that? Indeed you can. So in this tutorial I’ll walk you through getting SiriProxy working with your iPad 3 and Mac OS X – much of this will be relevant to Mountain Lion only though.I also warn you in advance, this is pretty difficult stuff and almost all done on the command line, and while I’ve tried to break it down step by step in the exact manner that worked for me, you may need to Google some errors yourself as and when they arise.RequirementsiPad or iPhone with Siri capabilities. I won’t be showing how to hack Siri onto older devices using fake servers, so don’t ask.Mac OS X. You can install SiriProxy on Linux too but I won’t be trying that today.iOS6.1PreparingDownload the pkg installer for your OS X version from MacPorts.org. MacPorts allows us to install a variety of UNIX utilities that have been ported to Mac. You also need to have XCode installed, which can be downloaded for free from the Mac App Store, but it’s a hefty download so get started now.MacPorts adds some new path entries to your system, but doesn’t update correctly. To avoid port command not found errors later, runsource .profileAt thi