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Hi:
 
I have looked at several posts and was unable to find a solution to send text messages to any cell phone.  Can this be done? I have an application that monitors a condition and needs to send out a short text message to indicate an alarm.  Any help is greatly appreciated.  Thanks
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The thing is that every text messaging cell phone should have an email address, and LabView can certainly do emailing so yeah I think it's do-able . But please note that receving an emailed text message cost money while a phone to phone text usually is free to the receiver

Message Edited by slingee on 07-19-2006 12:29 PM

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Hi Slingee:

I am aware of the email option (previously discussed in the forums), and I tried sending a plain text email via LV to my cell phone (T-mobile).  It did not work.  However, when I send an email from my Outlook to the cell phone at XXXXXXXXXX@tmomail.net, it works. I hope there is a definitive solution to send text messages (free of cost) to any cell phone via LV.  By the way, I have LV 7.1

Thanks

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On Wed, 19 Jul 2006 10:10:06 -0500, kmoorthy76107 put fingers to keyboard
and said:

> Hi:
>  
> I have looked at several posts and was unable to find a solution to send
> text messages to any cell phone.  Can this be done? I have an
> application that monitors a condition and needs to send out a short text
> message to indicate an alarm.  Any help is greatly appreciated. 
> Thanks

Does this help? Not labview specific, but I don't think it should be too
hard in labview if one can do it with hyperterm

http://www.developershome.com/sms/howToSendSMSFromPC.asp

If that's no help, there are lots of other websites that talk about SMS

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It works for me with my T-Mobile phone with both Outlook and the SMTP Email Send Message VI. Is this the function you've tried and do you get any errors generated when you use it?
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Dennis:

I get the following error code:

Error 16550 occurred at SMTP:
550 5.7.1 Unable to relay for 1234567890@tmomail.net

Possible reason(s):

LabVIEW:  (Hex 0x40A6) 550 Requested action not taken: mailbox unavailable. For example, the mailbox was not found or there is no access.

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That is strange. It is fine sending messages to other addresses? ie. some normal computer based address
Could you send a message to a gmail or a yahoo mail or hotmail ?
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Dennis:

I get the following error code:

Error 16550 occurred at SMTP:
550 5.7.1 Unable to relay for 1234567890@tmomail.net

Possible reason(s):

LabVIEW:  (Hex 0x40A6) 550 Requested action not taken: mailbox unavailable. For example, the mailbox was not found or there is no access.

Attached:  Snapshot of the block diagram and front panel

 

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Slingee: I am able to send email to other addresses (my work address) via the SMTP VI.  It works fine... just can't send to my cell phone.

 

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I would try to send a messaage to an external address. This could be caused by mail server configuration.

When I was in school, I could telnet into the mail server and send mail, as long as the address was on campus... it didn't allow me to relay to an external mail system.
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