Looking for an SMS gizmo.
Looking for an SMS gizmo.
(OP)
Hi all,
I'm looking for a handful of small battery powered devices that when a contact is closed or a button is pushed, submits a couple of text messages to a some mail server via WiFi so several people receive them on their phones.
I'd need to be able to MAC them thru the filter white-list of a local wireless router to get them onto the web, and point them onto a mail server for submitting, and pile-in the 4 or so send-to addresses.
Looking for any of these you folks know of and what the heck these might be called so I can search effectively for them.
I can hear the Arduino hacks cracking their knuckles already.
I'm looking for a handful of small battery powered devices that when a contact is closed or a button is pushed, submits a couple of text messages to a some mail server via WiFi so several people receive them on their phones.
I'd need to be able to MAC them thru the filter white-list of a local wireless router to get them onto the web, and point them onto a mail server for submitting, and pile-in the 4 or so send-to addresses.
Looking for any of these you folks know of and what the heck these might be called so I can search effectively for them.
I can hear the Arduino hacks cracking their knuckles already.
Keith Cress
kcress - http://www.flaminsystems.com





RE: Looking for an SMS gizmo.
AOT but somewhat related: http://www.tinylab.cc/getting-started/
I have one of these. Nothing spectacular about it. But for a lazy person that needs to experiment with different combinations of code chunks and hardware for measurement, communication, control or whatever - it is a handy little board. Order it with some extra radio devices and "Be Ready!"
Once you have a working solution, either use it as-is or roll your own board. I have already wowed one customer in the shortest time.
Gunnar Englund
www.gke.org
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RE: Looking for an SMS gizmo.
Benta.
RE: Looking for an SMS gizmo.
Hi benta, I don't quite follow you. The mail server is going to be one owned by Yahoo, or Google, or ?? I won't have any way to get it to produce a message.
Keith Cress
kcress - http://www.flaminsystems.com
RE: Looking for an SMS gizmo.
If it's "via WiFi", then it seems you'd need a CPU with Wifi.
The rest is 'just' (LOL!!) software.
It'll need quite a bit of software, I wonder if it'd need to something further up the food chain than an Arduino. Then your battery gets bigger.
To make the battery last, you might need either a circuit to power up the device (assuming low duty cycle), or a CPU with a deep sleep wake-up input.
I'll try searching with wifi and active tags, or similar. In case somebody has already invented a button cell powered thingy.
RE: Looking for an SMS gizmo.
http://www.wirelesstag.net/index.html
edit: search terms = wifi tag contact input
RE: Looking for an SMS gizmo.
Internet of Things
edit: Problem is, the 'things' are complicated and they do not run for weeks on a small battery.
Being 'connected' and a small battery is the tricky requirement.
RE: Looking for an SMS gizmo.
http://www.allaboutcircuits.com/projects/build-a-p...
The two D-cells speaks to my point about power consumption.
RE: Looking for an SMS gizmo.
What? I need it to generate a text message (SMS). Well that or an email message to addresses that get converted to text messages forwarded to phones.
Thanks for the links! And suggested search terms. Those are some interesting products too.
This gizmo does not need to be "connected". It should last years on a set of batteries because they're one-way and need only be powered when they need to send their message. In other words, they can be completely OFF until needed where the act of pushing the button or closing the contact boots the thing, it attaches to the local wifi, and then sends a couple of messages and can turn back OFF when done.
Keith Cress
kcress - http://www.flaminsystems.com
RE: Looking for an SMS gizmo.
Here's the description:
Maybe I should get one and dissect it.
Keith Cress
kcress - http://www.flaminsystems.com
RE: Looking for an SMS gizmo.
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"SMS gizmos" exist, but they're connected via the cell phone network. Implies a monthly fee, and batteries lasting days or maybe a week.
RE: Looking for an SMS gizmo.
It should also report its battery status. But too much self monitoring would consume battery. Trade off.
Hopefully this isn't for a safety critical system. Wifi might not be the optimum wireless link for critical systems.
RE: Looking for an SMS gizmo.
Somebody opens your front door, Amazon delivers you a carton of tissue.
RE: Looking for an SMS gizmo.
This is getting simpler by the minute.
RE: Looking for an SMS gizmo.
Fore-play. What you do until the Amazon delivery arrives.?
Sorry. The Devil made me do it! grin
Bill
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Jimmy Carter
RE: Looking for an SMS gizmo.
TTFN (ta ta for now)
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RE: Looking for an SMS gizmo.
Or https://www.adafruit.com/product/2821 or this if you want something 90% done https://www.sparkfun.com/products/13231
or something a "out of the box" (the amazon tags are great too that IR stuff just posted)
https://www.amazon.com/MESH-Mesh-Smart-Trigger-But...
RE: Looking for an SMS gizmo.
TTFN (ta ta for now)
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RE: Looking for an SMS gizmo.
Take a look at the following links for detailed parts list instructions.
https://www.richlynch.com/2013/07/27/pi_garage_ale...
https://www.richlynch.com/2013/08/04/pi_garage_ale...
RE: Looking for an SMS gizmo.
You can also use Google to look for "low power scada sms" and get a ton of hits, some are overkill, but it gives you a cross section of what's out there.
"You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you had to overcome to reach your goals" -- Booker T. Washington
RE: Looking for an SMS gizmo.
IR I don't know how you dig this stuff up. You must have a wetware cranial tap or something.
Keith Cress
kcress - http://www.flaminsystems.com
RE: Looking for an SMS gizmo.
TTFN (ta ta for now)
I can do absolutely anything. I'm an expert! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKorP55Aqvg
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RE: Looking for an SMS gizmo.
I hereby bestow my 'Thread of the Month' award.
RE: Looking for an SMS gizmo.
Keith Cress
kcress - http://www.flaminsystems.com