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How to text data from my Arduino

kjhart0133
kjhart0133 over 11 years ago

Hello all,

 

I'm working on a project to collect remote data using a remotely located XBee configured as an end device, a local XBee configured as a coordinator, and an Arduino Mega.  I then send that data to my Mac using Processing.  This part is all working properly and I've successfully created a file on the Mac with my data. 

 

The next step is to have the computer (the Mac) send a text message to my smart phone that contains the data in a readable form. It's at this point that I'm lost and don't know how to proceed.  Can anyone guide me to books or tutorials that shows how to use my computer to construct text messages from data in a file and how to send these messages to a smart phone.

 

I realize this is a pretty broad question, but I really only need someone to point me in the right direction at first.

 

Thanks,

 

Kevin H.

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    0 Former Member over 11 years ago

    Hi

     

    Interesting question.  Many possibilities.  I don't know exactly how to do this but believe that an easy way it can be accomplished is using a service called IFTTT.

    https://ifttt.com/

     

    IFTTT allows you to set up "Recipes".  These recipes contain a Trigger, which will be sensed by the data arriving on your MAC.  (not exactly sure how to do this part)

     

    You can connect this to an Action "Send a text message" that contains Ingredients(your data).

     

    I signed up a year ago and had a recipe going in only a few minutes, that I still use today.

    Although I don't remember how I did it!

     

    The website has detailed instructions.

     

    Brad

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  • davidbates
    0 davidbates over 11 years ago

    AT&T has a private cloud solution for this so if you are an AT&T subscriber check out https://developer.att.com/apis. The AT&T API is very well documented and backed by Tropo. As an alternative or maybe a mainstream method you can also use:

    Twilio Cloud Communications - APIs for Voice, VoIP and Text Messaging Both of these services allow you to simply call a URL and deliver text messages. If you are using ethernet or wifi on your arduino device you can even call these urls on the device itself. Doing so on the mac can be as simple as an automator task opening up a self-hosted php page. you can even use the javascript api to call people and play an mp3 or text to speech.

     

    Twilio Docs - Quickstart Php SMS Sending Via REST

     

    Have fun and sorry for the impending long nights as you tinker image

    David Bates

    https://plus.google.com/+davidbates

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  • tyson@tymoor.com
    0 tyson@tymoor.com over 11 years ago

    Just send an email:  The Complete List Of Text Messaging Email Addresses | EmailTextMessages.com

     

    For a Verizon Wireless Cell Phone, sending an email to 5551234567@myvzw.com will send a text to that phone.

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    0 kjhart0133 over 11 years ago

    Thanks everyone for the great answers.  I think I'm going to try Tyson's method of sending an email on my Verizon account.  So far I've been successful getting the remote data from the XBees, into the Arduino, and then into my Mac using Processing.  I still have to figure out how to parse the data I capture with Processing and then figure out how to generate email(s) to send that data out.  Any suggestions on how one goes about generating an email automatically would be greatly appreciated.

     

    Kevin H.

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