Re: Text messaging from web url

[Justin <justin@xxxxxxx>]

Paul,

have you seen my old Nokia, PAYG SIM, HomeSeer, solution?

http://tinyurl.com/ftdi

Certainly more reliable than some of the online offerings, 2 way SMS and it
is
cheaper than a GSM modem.
Additionally, using my HS Commander plugin, it is possible to have other
machines on a LAN send text messages as well.

I chose this route as:

I can send and receive text messages, even if net connection is down.

Notification of power failure as HA PC is on UPS (which talks to HomeSeer)
and
the phone obviously has a battery.

Burglar alarm notification, even if power and phone lines are out.


Justin.


Quoting Paul Gordon <paul_gordon@xxxxxxx>:

> Yes, I'd be interested, provided that the service isn't going to be
yet
> another fly-by-night, here today, gone tomorrow, web service, such as
most
> of the SMS services I'd tried using over the last few years... (IOBOX,
> BoltBlue, TextForce, etc...)
>
> In fact, I'd be *very* interested in a reliable, pay-as-you-go email
or web
>
> to SMS service. I'd also like to be able to configure it with cost
> thresholds though, - one of the services cost me a few quid a while
back
> when a scripting error (my fault!) resulted in SMS messeages being
sent to
> me continuously for several days while I was away...   :-(
>
> Paul G.
>
>
>
>
> >From: "kinchyuk" <alex@xxxxxxx>
> >Reply-To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> >To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> >Subject: [ukha_d] Text messaging from web url
> >Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2003 20:34:50 -0000
> >
> >Hi gang,
> >
> >I'm toying with the idea of setting up a service where you can
send
> >text messages simply by posting parameters to a URL. Something
along
> >the lines of sendmessage?from=123456&to=7890&message=hello
> >
> >I'm working with a company that already has the infrastructure in
> >place, and good direct UK SMS gateway connections, it'll cost
about
> >6p to send a text.
> >
> >Any interest? I figured it'd be good for event monitoring,
alerting,
> >etc etc - and it's a lot more reliable than plugging your mobile
into
> >your PC (and probably cheaper!)
> >
> >Alex