Making An Auto SMS System

[BlueShadow<3]

Hello All,

I just had an idea of a system that'd send SMS on certain days. For example reminders via SMS for Business meetings etc.

I know this is possible and I wanted to know how and what language is best to use. One thing it has to have is an easy way to set reminders without having to recompile the program and re-ship it out.


If anyone has done this before, can they tell me how?

Thanks in advance.

[elatllat]

If you don't want to figure out how to code it yourself you can just use google calendar or some intranet software.

If you wan sysadmin style you can use cron, at, curl, and http://www.text4free.net/personaltool.php

[BlueShadow<3]

Thanks

[DougieLawson]

If you don't want to figure out how to code it yourself you can just use google calendar or some intranet software.

For a general purpose calendar try using Roaring Penguin's Remind.
sudo apt-get install remind
You WILL need to read the man page as it is a highly featured calendar system.

[BlueShadow<3]

If you don't want to figure out how to code it yourself you can just use google calendar or some intranet software.

For a general purpose calendar try using Roaring Penguin's Remind.
sudo apt-get install remind
You WILL need to read the man page as it is a highly featured calendar system.

Just another question, I'm a true noob. What language should I use? I want to make this program available, using PasteBin, I'm no pro at this... Also another thing... It wouldn't cost to send SMS From a Pi, would it? Because it is not a phone. I know nothing is free in this world... Just thought I'd check.

If it does... Can I set it up to send Emails?


Thanks!

[mline]

It wouldn't cost to send SMS From a Pi, would it? Because it is not a phone.

If you want send SMS with your Pi you must add a GSM module. This GSM module needs a SIM-card and this card will cost same as your SIM-card in your phone.

You should first learn basics

[DougieLawson]

Just another question, I'm a true noob. What language should I use?

The answer to that is a) whatever language you like and b) whatever language has the functions that you need in freely available libraries. The answer for me for "What language?" is S/370 or zSeries assembler (because I like that best) and not python (because I hate languages that add a syntactic value to whitespace). I'll struggle to get S/370 assembler running natively on a Pi.

Ultimately it's your choice.

[BlueShadow<3]

It wouldn't cost to send SMS From a Pi, would it? Because it is not a phone.

If you want send SMS with your Pi you must add a GSM module. This GSM module needs a SIM-card and this card will cost same as your SIM-card in your phone.

What about E-mail?

[BlueShadow<3]

Just another question, I'm a true noob. What language should I use?

The answer to that is a) whatever language you like and b) whatever language has the functions that you need in freely available libraries. The answer for me for "What language?" is S/370 or zSeries assembler (because I like that best) and not python (because I hate languages that add a syntactic value to whitespace). I'll struggle to get S/370 assembler running natively on a Pi.

Ultimately it's your choice.

What about LUA?

[DougieLawson]

Ultimately it's your choice.

What about LUA?

See above ^^^^
For most support from more forum correspondents you'll do best to stick to the most popular language - python (which is a language I dislike because of the python 2.7 vs python 3.2 mess and the syntax requirement (which causes difficult to find bugs in programs)).

I've read the docs for Lua, it's a general purpose interpreted language but I can't think of anything it does that can't be done in other languages.

[BlueShadow<3]

Ultimately it's your choice.

What about LUA?

See above ^^^^
For most support from more forum correspondents you'll do best to stick to the most popular language - python (which is a language I dislike because of the python 2.7 vs python 3.2 mess and the syntax requirement (which causes difficult to find bugs in programs)).

I've read the docs for Lua, it's a general purpose interpreted language but I can't think of anything it does that can't be done in other languages.

So because I only know a little LUA. I can use it? Because I like LUA...

[r3d4]

So because I only know a little LUA. I can use it? Because I like LUA...

Just try it !
I cant think of any reason it wont work , but i didnt think all that mutch + i might think at a leisurely pace!

[BlueShadow<3]

So because I only know a little LUA. I can use it? Because I like LUA...

Just try it !
I cant think of any reason it wont work , but i didnt think all that mutch + i might think at a leisurely pace!

Do you think E-mail will work with it?

[r3d4]

IMAP or pop

I think you should try it and find out

[BlueShadow<3]

IMAP, I really want this to work....

[default_user8]

Don't know how it is in the UK, but in the US you can send SMS via email. You should check with your cellular provider. Of course you could do all that with a gmail account and gmail calendar which would cut out the raspi completely. And what fun would that be?

[nick9000]

I use http://www.textlocal.com/

A bit of python to talk to their API and you're on your way. My pi sends me an SMS when it detects motion on the camera. I can also send it an SMS to turn on electrical equipment via my pi-mote http://www.raspberrypi.org/controlling- ... e-pi-mote/

[BlueShadow<3]

Don't know how it is in the UK, but in the US you can send SMS via email. You should check with your cellular provider. Of course you could do all that with a gmail account and gmail calendar which would cut out the raspi completely. And what fun would that be?

I wanted to make a program with a GUI that I can set up events that'll be stored in a spreadsheet. The pi will read the sheet. Then email the contents of a column named "Description" to certain people. Their E-mail address will be in the BCC line so nobody can get their email. It would be easy to add/remove email addresses and events. That's my vision. The only thing restricting me is my Noobyness

[BlueShadow<3]

I use http://www.textlocal.com/

A bit of python to talk to their API and you're on your way. My pi sends me an SMS when it detects motion on the camera. I can also send it an SMS to turn on electrical equipment via my pi-mote http://www.raspberrypi.org/controlling- ... e-pi-mote/

So this WILL work?

[BlueShadow<3]

Don't know how it is in the UK, but in the US you can send SMS via email. You should check with your cellular provider. Of course you could do all that with a gmail account and gmail calendar which would cut out the raspi completely. And what fun would that be?

I wanted to make a program with a GUI that I can set up events that'll be stored in a spreadsheet. The pi will read the sheet. Then email the contents of a column named "Description" to certain people. Their E-mail address will be in the BCC line so nobody can get their email. It would be easy to add/remove email addresses and events. That's my vision. The only thing restricting me is my Noobyness

Can someone edit this so it will use E-mail instead of SMS? http://www.textlocal.com/simple-developer-sms-api

[Jednorozec]

Can someone edit this so it will use E-mail instead of SMS? http://www.textlocal.com/simple-developer-sms-api

Maybe you'd like someone to do the entire project for you.

[BlueShadow<3]

Can someone edit this so it will use E-mail instead of SMS? http://www.textlocal.com/simple-developer-sms-api

Maybe you'd like someone to do the entire project for you.

I'm just a noob, I need someone to show me the ropes. That's all!

[r3d4]

Education isn't everything; for a start it isn't an elephant.