Re: [OT] Pager for car alarm

[Dave McLaughlin <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Nice idea.

The WTS701 from Winbond is the ideal low cost text to speech IC that
would work from a PIC too. A bit robotic but good enough for this sort
of application.

http://www.winbond.com/e-winbondhtm/partner/b_2_a_5.htm

Kim, check out the GM862 from www.Holux-uk.com as this is a pretty good
low cost GMS module that would interface to a PIC and make a nice
embedded system. Has a SIM card holder built in too so makes design easy
with just a serial interface and power.

http://www.holux-uk.com/Embedded/index.htm

More technical details from here:

http://www.gm862.com/

Buy from Holux if you need some modules. Cheapest place I know of and
mention me if you do. I buy GPS, GSM etc from them and great service.

Dave...

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LeeUKHA wrote:

> Hmmm, speech synthesis for which sensor was triggered???
>
> Don't forget the remote start option!
>
> Lee
>   -----Original Message-----
>   From: kimble [mailto:kim@xxxxxxx]
>   Sent: 17 November 2004 21:50
>   To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
>   Subject: Re: [ukha_d] [OT] Pager for car alarm
>
>
>   John Andrews wrote:
>
>   > That is soooo cool!
>
>   I'm resisting the urge to completely re-implement the alarm unit
>   (horribly cheap & nasty thing from previous owner) on a PIC and
doing
>   cool things with SMS saying which sensor was triggered and other
UKHAish
>   things...  Although it's probably still sensible to use a proper
call
>   for alarm paging, as text messages tend to get laggy at the most
>   inconvenient moments.
>
>   Being able to arm/disarm from the mobile would be good though, as we
>   often have to park out of weedy-little-keyfob-transmitter range from
the
>   house.  Hmm...
>
>
>   kim.
>   xxx