can lookout 6.5 send phone text

[Jimmney]

Can Lookout 6.5 send out phone text messages on alarm, as opposed to pages or e-mail?

[Ryan.S]

You can use the SMS object to send short message to cell phone. But it needs a GSM modem connected to computer.

Another choice is to use the email. Some service provider provides a mail server and specific email address which you can send email to and then your cell phone will get the email text as short message.

[rnifty]

I tried to send SMS through email using the mailer object with AT&T (phonenumber@txt.att.net)  it works great if I do it using Microsoft Outlook, however when you load that same Recipients = address into the Lookout mailer object it does not relay the message and returns an error message (SMTP: Unexpected reply after message sent. SMTP error 550 5.2.0 NG1Y1h0070aT7tj01G1YXP 5.7.1 Unable to relay E9210)  I would be great if this worked and you could send text to cell phones via this object.  If it did you would not have to have a GSM Modem and SIM card sevice to to pay each month.

[Ryan.S]

What's the mail server you set?

Can you give a screenshot of the mailer object's property dialogbox?

[rnifty]

I gave up on trying to use the email mailer object.  Instead I bought a USB GMS modem and went to using the SMS object instead.  I can't get the test button on the SMS object to work I get these messages:

Requesting com port...Succeeded.

Testing communication with modem...Succeeded.

Testing if command is supported by modem...Failed.

If I ignore these messages from the test button on the SMS Object and go ahead and trip the send trigger for the SMS Object it will execute and send the SMS message which I get on my cell phone just as it should.  However it then trips a comm alarm for the SMS Object with a Garbled response for the Description.  So every time you try to report an alarm you create a new one to add to it.  I have read all the issues I could find, tried extending the com port

receive gap up to as much as 500 bytes as suggesten and I still get the same results.  You got any ideas or suggestions.

[Ryan.S]

Please enable the diagnostic file on serial port from Option->Serial Ports. The file name can be like c:\log.txt

It will log the communication on the serial port.

Send the text message and give me the log file after it shows the alarm.