Labview take over the control of mobile phone

[Fuquey]

I will like my PC (Labview) to take over and full control the mobile phone. When any kind of mobile phone (cheapness phone, normal phone, 3G phone, PDA, smart phone, Palm or pocket PC) connect to PC, Labview can control the phone to call out, receive a call, send and receive sms / mms. Does it possible to do? Can be Labview direct connect with mobile phone?

[tst]

This depends on the phone. I believe that most phones do not have an established way of talking to programs running on the computer, but some phones do support various protocols which you can use to control the phone. If your phone has a protocol or a DLL which can be used to control it, then you can do it. Otherwise, you can't.

If you really want to send messages from LabVIEW, you should consider getting a cellular modem which will support these protocols.

[tst]

Also, as mentioned in one of your other threads, you can do these things through internet sites. If you search for "SMS" you should find some results.

[Fuquey]

Sorry, but for me is two difference kind of project, on another threads is my current project (urgent) that just alert the user with sms. And this threads is for my future planning project that can take full control of phone. Just imagine this:

• If I lost my mobile phone, I can locate the location from my PC.
• If somebody steal my mobile phone, I have chance to catch back. (We can take a photo and send back to us or police)
• If boss call in from other place, all the staff on the same network can hear the announcement just by one phone call.
• User also can control the PC through mobile phone, this is two way communication.
• etc.

I knew that some high technologies countries was able to do that.

And also, I'm looking for standard protocol or dll that suit for most phone.

[rolfk]

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@apple James wrote:

Sorry, but for me is two difference kind of project, on another threads is my current project (urgent) that just alert the user with sms. And this threads is for my future planning project that can take full control of phone. Just imagine this:

• If I lost my mobile phone, I can locate the location from my PC.
• If somebody steal my mobile phone, I have chance to catch back. (We can take a photo and send back to us or police)
• If boss call in from other place, all the staff on the same network can hear the announcement just by one phone call.
• User also can control the PC through mobile phone, this is two way communication.
• etc.

I knew that some high technologies countries was able to do that.

And also, I'm looking for standard protocol or dll that suit for most phone.

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That doesn't exist! Some phones have a standard AT modem interface that can be connected to a computer through a (usually) proprietary cable or connection box and then you could do a fairly standard interface to control most (almost never all) of the functionality of your mobile phone through a serial port connection (VISA functions). The problem with even these AT commands is that while there is an ETSI standard for most of the functions of mobile phones (but not really for realtime voice transmission) each manufacturer decides himself how much he wants to implement of this standard, if he wants to limit certainly functionality to fit into this standard or implements his own private extensions to this standard to support additional features or sometimes also just simply be different than the rest.

Other phones mostly modern ones only support Bluetooth interfacing with a protocol I'm not sure about but it wouldn't surprise me if some manufacturers invent their own idea of this again, even if there is a common standard protocol for mobile phone functionality (which I don't know if there is).

Last but not least there are phones that are on purpose limited to not (officially) support an external control interface or use a completely proprietary one that will likely only work with the manufacturers own software.

The whole scale of control (two way) you are asking will usually require all of the following:

- a specific phone that supports these features

- a mobile phone operator that supports these (multiple) services (with usually a hefty monthly bill)

- a customized remote application listening for the service request from your phone and translating them to various other services 

Rolf Kalbermatter

[Dennis_Knutson]

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@apple James wrote:

Sorry, but for me is two difference kind of project, on another threads is my current project (urgent) that just alert the user with sms. And this threads is for my future planning project that can take full control of phone. Just imagine this:

• If I lost my mobile phone, I can locate the location from my PC.
• If somebody steal my mobile phone, I have chance to catch back. (We can take a photo and send back to us or police)
• If boss call in from other place, all the staff on the same network can hear the announcement just by one phone call.
• User also can control the PC through mobile phone, this is two way communication.
• etc.

I knew that some high technologies countries was able to do that.

And also, I'm looking for standard protocol or dll that suit for most phone.

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You also have the problem that the information you need (i.e. phone location) is only available to the service provider and you would probably need to hack into their system. That is why you can go to your provider's web site and get help in locating a lost phone (and assuming a gps equipped phone). The provider has access to the cell sites and the radios there that have detected the presence of your specific phone number. I don't believe that information is made generally available except to emergency operators such as police and fire departments.

You also have two distinct different cell technologies (GSM and CDMA) for digital and a different one for analog phones.

[Fuquey]

If the phone not support AT commands, any else communication method that we can use?

[rolfk]

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Dennis Knutson wrote:

You also have two distinct different cell technologies (GSM and CDMA) for digital and a different one for analog phones.

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I think some of what he wants to do would definitely require next generation mobile phone networks such as UMTS. GSM and American variant of it just never where thought to do much more than voice transmission.

And as far as the analog systems go, if they still operate there are actually many different ones of them. Just about each country thought it a good idea to have their own system back in the 80ies 😉

Rolf Kalbermatter 

[rolfk]

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@apple James wrote:
If the phone not support AT commands, any else communication method that we can use?

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As I already explained modern bluetooth devices may support a new command interface, or maybe they just support AT commands through bluetooth text messages.

Other technologies than AT commands (and possibly a specific bluetooth protocol) are as far as I know always proprietary. Nokia for instance used in older phones a proprietary interface with proprietary cables, drivers and application software.

Rolf Kalbermatter

[Jay14159265]

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@Fuquey wrote:

Sorry, but for me is two difference kind of project, on another threads is my current project (urgent) that just alert the user with sms. And this threads is for my future planning project that can take full control of phone. Just imagine this:

• If I lost my mobile phone, I can locate the location from my PC.
• If somebody steal my mobile phone, I have chance to catch back. (We can take a photo and send back to us or police)
• If boss call in from other place, all the staff on the same network can hear the announcement just by one phone call.
• User also can control the PC through mobile phone, this is two way communication.
• etc.

I knew that some high technologies countries was able to do that.

And also, I'm looking for standard protocol or dll that suit for most phone.

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That is quite the tall task. If you want code that does all that on a phone, you will need to write the code that can access that service if it is available on the phone. I would check our Flutter, it's probably the path of least resistance to accomplish your task.