seeking perl monks wisdom... mobile alerts

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Re: seeking perl monks wisdom... mobile alerts by JavaFan (Canon) on Jul 13, 2010 at 10:42 UTC
I presume you're talking about SMS messages. What you need is a carrier that will do the sending over the network. That carrier will have an API. For a previous employer, I wrote an interface for $CARRIER - which wasn't any more difficult than sending an XML document over HTTP, using basic HTTP authentication, and a message digest + shared secret for authorization. LWP, some XML module and Digest::MD5 was needed. It was pretty trivial to write, so I never bothered to cut throught $WORK[-1]'s red tape to get the non business-logic released on CPAN. The hardest part was figuring out what was missing from $CARRIER's spec, and which parts $CARRIER had forgotten to implement. ;-) The most important document you need is your $CARRIER's spec.	[reply]
Re: seeking perl monks wisdom... mobile alerts by moritz (Cardinal) on Jul 13, 2010 at 11:18 UTC
Another idea is to use an email-to-textmessage provider, and then send out emails, which is well supported in Perl.	[reply]
Re^2: seeking perl monks wisdom... mobile alerts by derby (Abbot) on Jul 13, 2010 at 12:11 UTC
Hmmm ... I wonder if there's any real benefit to using an email-to-textmessage provider over the providers own gateway. I guess if you have a lot of people to alert, maintaining that list could be a hassle. -derby	[reply]
Re: seeking perl monks wisdom... mobile alerts by Anonymous Monk on Jul 13, 2010 at 11:06 UTC
I've successfully used Net::EMI::Client for sending SMS via an SMSC, but I'm sure that GSM::SMS or similar might be useable too with a GSM-device hooked up to your server?	[reply]
Re: seeking perl monks wisdom... mobile alerts by salva (Canon) on Jul 13, 2010 at 11:26 UTC
Probably the easiest way is to plug a GSM/3G/whatever phone or modem into the server and use gnokii to send the text messages or just talk directly to the device sending the corresponding standard AT modem commands to its serial port (i.e. `/dev/ttyUSB0`).	[reply] [d/l]
Re: seeking perl monks wisdom... mobile alerts by zek152 (Pilgrim) on Jul 13, 2010 at 12:53 UTC
If you have the carrier information I would just send sms via email. A quick search showed the following emails by carriers: `T-Mobile phonenumber@tmomail.net Virgin Mobile phonenumber@vmobl.com Cingular phonenumber@cingularme.com Sprint phonenumber@messaging.sprintpcs.com Verizon phonenumber@vtext.com Nextel phonenumber@messaging.nextel.com` [download] I have only verified one of the addresses. It seems like it would be really easy to set this up if you can just send an email.	[reply] [d/l]