How do I alert a cell phone of an alarm?

[Traders]

I am running Lookout 5.0 and want to alert a cell phone when an alarm occurs. I especially want to give the phone answerer a voice message of the alarm. Anyone done this?

[Ollie]

You will need to use a thrid party software package called Win911. You can get all the info at http://www.specterinstruments.com/

[num12358]

Fer crist sakes no. You can do this with a data member and pager object. We have one application currently running in this fashion.

[Traders]

Any other info or details you can give me to steer me in the right direction would be appreciated. In your application, are you able to give a voice message with the phone call?

[Ollie]

You can use num12358 application to steer numeric messages to a cellphone, but not voice. Again you will need to use a third party software that I spoke of orginally.

[num12358]

On an old project we were able to send a text message to a pager predicated on the alarm. Now, if memory serves me well, we had to use a mailer object that sent an e mail inturn accessed a pager. With that said, you should be able to use a pager object with a variable text message using type alphanumeric. Getting the cell phone to display alphanumeric has been more trouble than the rest. Now, can you play a .wav file instead of using text? I have not yet tried.

[Khalid]

If you do not have the option of using 3rd-party software, you can may be use the Pager object to send the text message, and then the ASCII object to call the cell phone repeatedly for, say, 3 times. This way, the user hears the rings (which may not be the case when a text msg is received) and would know to check the txt message. Just a thought.


Khalid