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

[km76107]

hi,

I found this application from Invent Engineering that has an Installer for Skype.  I haven't explored this yet. http://www.inventeering.com/

[Dennis_Knutson]

Skype uses a proprietary protocol but everyone else seems to moving to an open source protocol called SIP (http://www.sipfoundry.org/). My company makes VoIP products and we use SIP software. Code from SIPfoundry was modified and we use that to initiate/receive calls with LabVIEW. Audio information is passed with virtual sound card software. The LabVIEW built-in sound card functions can be used with the virtual sound card. Our testing only requires that we send/receive discreet tones but sending actual voice messages could be done by just recording some .wav files.

[agill]

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@rolfk wrote:

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

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In this case, Does it really matter if he can't receive audio?  The fact that he's recieving the call, and the fact that his cell phone probably has caller ID, should be enough info to know that his machine is calling him.  (But then why not go the text message route?)  If one wants to develop a full set of drivers for Skype, then that's a different story 😉

If sound is of utmost importance, If his computer has a microphone, shouldn't Skype's API know how to enable the mic?  Then he could pick up the alarm sound externally, somehow (through speakers)?  Is it completely necessary to have the sound be passed directly to and from LV to Skype?

[km76107]

Is there a way to interface LV with Google Talk to send text messages to cell phone? 

[Dennis_Knutson]

I'm sorry to hear that you are still having problems with sending a text message. If I remember correctly from another post, you are able to use Outlook but the LabVIEW function gives you an error? Is there anyone in your IS department that might help? You have to get the name of the SMTP server (not the Microsoft Exchange Server) from them and also verify that it's not set up to reject anything that doesn't originate from Outlook. I think trying to interface to Skype or GoogleTalk might be an interesting exercise but one that might take a while to get working.

[km76107]

Yes..you are right.. it's the same problem i've been trying to solve since my last post in the same post... the IS dept will not share the SMTP server due to security reasons..., which further adds to my frustration..

i am trying to figure out the best (and cheapest) way to notify a remote user of an alarm event... i thought that sending SMS to cell phones might be feasible..i tried to send SMS via google to my cell phone and that works fine...

i'll keep looking, but if you find anything, i'd appreciate if you would share it.

Thanks

[km76107]

http://digital.ni.com/public.nsf/allkb/5C55FAEDC7BF5C0C862570930054D39F 

I tried the following idea from the link posted above and that works fine too..

As a final note, the most common difficulty encountered when using LabVIEW to send e-mail is choosing the appropriate mail server. One technique to troubleshoot mail server difficulties is to use the telnet command as described in the following steps:

1) Go to: Start >> Program Files >> Command Prompt
2) In the command prompt window, type: “telnet [name of server] 25” and press enter

If the connection request is accepted by the server, you can verify that the mail server is valid. Thus, using that server name in LabVIEW should be successful.

[Dennis_Knutson]

Well, there are good IS departments and then there are bad IS departments. The good ones realize that they are a service provider to the rest of the company. The bad ones think they are the center of the universe. Giving a trusted employee the name of the server so that you can conduct company business should be no different than you being trusted with Internet access. When faced with a bad IS department in the past, I've relied on management to force the issue up the chain of command. That's what management is for.

In the meantime, maybe I or someone else can come up with a different approach. It probably won't help you but as a side project, I'm going to start experimenting with some Internet telephony. We're switching to a SIP-based VoiP phone network and dialing anywhere from any pc should be fairly simple. With free SIP-phone software, we can already make a  call between any 2 pc's with a soundcard. I'll let you know if I run across something that might apply to your situation.

[AnalogKid2DigitalMan]

Came across this today and it rung a bell (like a phone). Uses web services to call a phone number in LV 8.20 and read a text file out aloud

http://zone.ni.com/devzone/conceptd.nsf/webmain/29543201344aa09f86256d740066839e

For 7.x and 8.0, more generic description of using web services

http://zone.ni.com/devzone/conceptd.nsf/webmain/5CF258A718A3DD70862571C10001C23C

[km76107]

Hi

I found this post and it seems to work for the problem that I had posted... just wanted to share it with you all...(in case you haven't seen it)

Thanks for the VI posted by jdinkins

http://forums.ni.com/ni/board/message?board.id=170&message.id=98460&query.id=12016#M98460