Remote alerts

[Mark Smith]

In the UK we have sms2email.com and others. You can use a simple URL  
command to send sms, like this :

put   
http://www.sms2email.com/sms/postmsg.php? 
to_num=pNumber&message=mText+ok&flash=0&username=uName&password=pWord  
into smsVar

replace "pNumber" with yourPhoneNumber in smsVar
replace "mText" with messageText in smsVar
replace "uName" with yourUserName in smsVar
replace "pWord" with yourPassword in smsVar

get URL smsVar

this will send the message and place some sort of "OK" or "not OK"  
message in the "it" variable, which you can handle as you wish.

  It costs about £10 for 100 messages. There must be something similar  
in oz.

Cheers,

Mark

On 15 Jun 2004, at 23:06, use-revolution-request at lists.runrev.com wrote:

> Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 17:00:52 +1000
> From: Sarah Reichelt <sarahr at genesearch.com.au>
> Subject: Remote alerts
> To: use-revolution at lists.runrev.com
> Message-ID: <BD55504B-BE99-11D8-853C-0003937A97B8 at genesearch.com.au>
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>
> I have an application that monitors multiple temperature sensors,
> setting off alarms if any of them go outside their required parameters.
> This is fine locally as I can have an audible and visual alarm, but now
> I'm working on what happens when something goes wrong in the middle of
> the night!
>
> There are various methods, both active and passive, that have occurred
> to me, but I was hoping that some of you could come up with more ideas
> or methods.
>
> Passive: web site, email (no problems here, just they reply on people
> checking)
> Active: SMS, telephone call, some other brilliant idea?
>
> Here is where my problems really begin. I haven't an idea how to do SMS
> (text messages) and while I know how to make a modem ring a phone
> number, how do I respond when the phone is answered? Is it possible to
> play a recorded sound, or use the speech commands to speak down the
> phone line?
>
> If it makes any difference, this will be running only on Macs with OS  
> X.
>
> Cheers,
> Sarah