Is there a way to have labview call my cell phone when an event happens?

[Henrik_Volkers]

Maybe, and as far as I understood an 22C3 article it can be done even without notice of the phone owner  

But my knowledge about Bluetooth (and BT & LV) isn't as high as I wish it would be. The problem might not be Bluetooth, but the protocol type (headset, comm, ....)

[powellcm]

If you have SMS (text msg) on your phone your provider most likely maintains an email gateway to SMS.  In other word you can send an email to your phones address (usually something like 5555555555@mobilecompany.com).  Then inside labview use Functions>Communication>Mail to send a txt msg to your phone (usually they need to be palin txt and less than 160-180 chars depending on your provider.  You can also use System Exec.vi to call a command line emailer like Blat.exe from a *.bat file.  I do this frequently, I use LV to log data from remote instruments and want notification when certain events happen (i.e. over-temp, low bat volts, not talking etc...)

[km76107]

Hi

I am trying to do the same thing.. send an alarm message to a cell phone based on an event (e.g high temp). Could you please elaborate on how you did it? I am using LV 7.0

Thank you in advance.

[Larry Fiegland]

I was never able to figure it out. Please let me know if you have any luck.

[agill]

Is there any way of interfacing LV with Skype?  Or even google talk?

That could make calling your phone quite simple.

[MJBrehm]

If LV can easily send out an email... I would say that would be the best way to do it. As was suggested before... you would just receive a txt message instead of a phone call.

[km76107]

I am not sure if LV can interface with Skype or Google Talk... but that's a good point.  I'll check it out and keep you posted.

THanks

[agill]

Well, I've never used Google Talk before.  I'm assuming it's VOIP, and can make calls to phones from your computer.  Hopefully it's not just computer to computer.  I know for a fact that Skype is true VOIP.

Apparently Skype has made their computer to phone calling free till the end of this year (previously computer to computer was only free, and phone to computer calling costed a small amount of money+local charges).

If you can get it working, it's no doubtedly the cheapest way suggested so far ;).

[BestPker]

Gtalk cannot make free pc-phone calls (i heard there's a third-party addon u can use though, costs $$$).

Skype sounds good here.

Message Edited by BestPker on 07-13-2006 02:26 PM

Message Edited by BestPker on 07-13-2006 02:26 PM

[rolfk]

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@BestPker wrote:

Gtalk cannot make free pc-phone calls (i heard there's a third-party addon u can use though, costs $$$).

Skype sounds good here.

Message Edited by BestPker on 07-13-2006 02:26 PM

Message Edited by BestPker on 07-13-2006 02:26 PM

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Skype has a developer API so it is theoretically possible. However as I have just seen its interfacing is highly platform dependant.
On Windows you need to send WM_COPYDATA messages to the Skype application. Linux seems to use D-Bus or X11 messaging and on MacOS you need to use Cocao, Carbon, or Apple Script.

Unless you want to support only one platform you probably would need to write a platform specific external shared library to interface LabVIEW easily to Skype.

The type of API as a command interface however suggests that you couldn't really pass audio data directly to and from LabVIEW into Skype.

Rolf Kalbermatter

Message Edited by rolfk on 07-14-2006 11:08 AM