Sms

gpsstudent

Got an sms login thing working off my linux!

Wondering how I would go about looking for a program that would say send an sms every hour to a person!

You can set it up to an extent on the vodafone site but its not exactly what i'm looking for so i want to use my own code to use it

Any ideas where to look for a script?

Red Alert

netsoc in UCD seem to have such a system, although i'm not quite sure whether it still works. The sender ID appears to come from Uzbeckistan if you look the number up in the phone book, and to be honest they seem to keep a tight lid on exactly how it works, dunno if it's illegal or what.

dmd

If it's a command line program, why not just have crontab run it once per hour.

Look for a tutorial on crontab, it's pretty useful.

Red Alert

you could crontab a program that'll send a http request to the vodafone site:

(1) Login
(2) Send the message
(3) Log out

I don't know how you'd handle the cookies, is there some way of maybe driving lynx from the command line?

leeroybrown

No doubt o2sms is what he's using to send the sms so that's all already handled.

Just create a simple script (shell, perl, ...) to invoke o2sms witht he necessary options to send the message. Then create a cronjob to execute this script periodically.


Edit your crontab:

crontab -e

An entry like:

5 * * * * /path/to/script.sh

will cause it to run at 5 past the hour every hour.

You can list your crontab contents with:

crontab -l

Alternatively you could just run a script as a daemon that calls a 'sleep(x)' function where 'x' represents an hour. The crontab method is far more reliable.

Syth

netsoc in UCD seem to have such a system, although i'm not quite sure whether it still works. The sender ID appears to come from Uzbeckistan if you look the number up in the phone book, and to be honest they seem to keep a tight lid on exactly how it works, dunno if it's illegal or what.

That doesn't work anymore, alas...:(

irishguy

its working fine now again for all networks, some times it goes down when they change the site, very handy tool

leeroybrown

its working fine now again for all networks

I think Syth was referring to some slightly dodgy sustem using a SMS gateway sitting in Uzbeckistan, not ot o2sms.

irishguy

i should really read the full post before replying shouldnt i

joc_06

use a gsm modem or mobile phone, connect it to a com port and use whatever code you like - its handy out.

hostyle

You're not setting up a Dead Mans Trigger by any chance?