Re: [OT] Pager for car alarm

["big_red_frog" <atod@xxxxxxx>]

Most annoying thing about all this is that writing embedded software
for mobile telecoms is what I do for a living, and have previoulsy
spun up my own builds to do the odd bit of "unspecced" behaviour.

However, right now my contract is not with a handset manufacturer,
therefore, I don't have access to the toolchain that I have had for
the past 8 years :-(

Still I am sure the next contract will be handset based, so will
start musing requirements.

I can then tie in just about any functionality I want.

--- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, "Ward, David" <DAvid.Ward@s...>
wrote:
> kim,
>
> I've toyed with this a bit.
>
> PAYG SIMs generally require topping up every 4 months or so which
for low
> volume stuff is fine
>
> An alert system that a friend set up for a home nursing company
used a
> combination of SMS sent to phone with details followed by an
immediate voice
> call to the same phone to provide instant notification,  this is
the way
> that I would go.  It would also allow the listen in function that
most alarm
> auto diallers provide.
>
> For cheap old phones see www.retrofone.co.uk (Just found it today!)
>
> Dave
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: kimble [mailto:kim@d...]
> 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
>
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