Are we living in the future yet?

[tyggerjai]

Next ubertechnology plan.

I use goofey/email/online communication a lot. I mean a lot. And I hate mobiles. Don't own one, won't cary one.

However.

bunnikins has a mobile, and uses SMS a lot, and rarely checks her email, and doesn't have a single instant messaging account.

So. This makes it awfully difficult sometimes for us to communicate in any meaningful fashion when we're not face to face. I can look up her mobile number and go find a phone and ring her, and usually leave a message. And she can ring my work, and our phone-answerer (since I have achieved phone Zen at work) will offer to take a message and send me an email. And that's about as good as it gets.

But soon, yes soon, I will have an SMS gateway at home, so she can SMS "me" and have the SMS converted to email/goofey/AIM/IRC/instant-message-protocol-du-jour, and similarly I can message her (via same protocol, or the Web, or any number of ways), and that will be converted to SMS and sent straight to her. And this is, apparently, all incredibly easy.

I say apparently. Phone should arrive in a day or two. Cable should arrive by the weekend. In theory, that's all I need. I will keep y'all posted (because I know you all care). Watch This Space for instructions on How To SMS Jai. Yay.

sol.
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Comments

[leadgend.livejournal.com]

telstra.com has had a web SMS <-> email thingy available for years. If I could remember my password I might even use it.

[tyggerjai.livejournal.com]

Email's not really optimal, and nor, to be honest, is anything that has anything more than strictly necessary to do with Telstra.
I have a bluesky account that will do email -> SMS, but not the other way, and since I no longer have a mobile, it's a bit pointless :)

And there are four of us in the household, with varying degrees of mobile/IM connectivity, so I'm looking for a more flexible, scalable solution - I want, for example, to be able to message "household", and have it email wico, goof longi, and SMS Megan. Which I wouldn't trust Telstra to be able to do in a pink fit.

sol.
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[leadgend.livejournal.com]

I didn't say it was what you required or even good generally just that it has existed for years so there ought to be lots of actually useful stuff out there by now.

Blueskyfrog

[thorfinn]

Err, d00d, I know you're really really into DIY... but buying bunnikins a few blueskyfrog would do the trick. Sure, it would be her getting the email<->SMS gateway bit, rather than you, and a bit less flexible...

Re: Blueskyfrog

[tyggerjai.livejournal.com]

See my response to Leadgend :)
Actually, I had my blueskyfrog account when they only did it the other way, I believe, and I'd definitely need it to go both ways. But it still doesn't scale, or have the flexibility I want. I should check into it, though, you're right.

sol.
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Re: Blueskyfrog

[tyggerjai.livejournal.com]

Oooh.
That works.
Actually, it's still not *quite* what I want, but it'll do for the moment, certainly.

sol.
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[kitling.livejournal.com]

and there is a problem with megan calling me and getting me to goof you..? :)

[drwally.livejournal.com]

And might I say, congratulations on achieving Phone Zen.

Thank ye.

[tyggerjai.livejournal.com]

There Is No Phone.

And verily it rocks.

sol.
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Re: Are we living in the future yet?

[blarglefiend.livejournal.com]

I have come very close to this most of the time. The only exception is when I am the duty programmer, when I have to answer the phone in case it's helpdesk or operations.

The rest of the time it goes to voicemail, and occasionally I check the messages. Not that I respond to any of them.

[blarglefiend.livejournal.com]

Wuss! You're not really doing SMS until you've got an X.25 connection to Austpac and a LAP-B session with an SMS-C to pump 'em out.

[jeshyr]

Can I have your sourcecode when you're done? I need this ...

Of course.

[tyggerjai.livejournal.com]

The gateway will probably be nokia specific, since there's at least one popular open source suite for nokias (gnokii). But the comms engine behind it should be nice and modular, I hope.

sol.
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Ummm...

[longi.livejournal.com]

I hate to tell you this...

I've had this operational since I moved in.

You know the PDA sitting next to my computer in a cradle?
It's also a phone. I have email and web to sms gateway.

goofey to sms and viceversa would take a few mins to write.