From: jj d. <del...@gm...> - 2005-12-03 21:32:57
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Dear Mailing list, Due to a car accident my dad is in an hospital with intensive care. I would like to build for him a device which could allow our family to send him SMS which could be displayed on an LCD screen periodically. I thought that the gumstix could help me to build this device. Unfortunately i'm not at all an experienced user of the gumstix (i feel much more confident with linux and ruby or php coding). I have different questions: Do you think that this little project is feasible using gumstix ? Is there someone who had already made something close or similar that i could modify ? Do you think that such a project couldn't be done by a gumstix newbie ? Best regards, JJ |
From: Alexandre P. N. <al...@om...> - 2005-12-03 21:47:41
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jj delaforet escreveu: >Dear Mailing list, > >Due to a car accident my dad is in an hospital with intensive care. >I would like to build for him a device which could allow our family to >send him SMS which could be displayed on an LCD screen periodically. >I thought that the gumstix could help me to build this device. >Unfortunately i'm not at all an experienced user of the gumstix (i >feel much more confident with linux and ruby or php coding). >I have different questions: >Do you think that this little project is feasible using gumstix ? >Is there someone who had already made something close or similar that >i could modify ? >Do you think that such a project couldn't be done by a gumstix newbie ? > >Best regards, > >JJ > > > My best regards to your dad! Well, if you use a gsm phone the SMS aspects it's almost a piece of cake. I only mention GSM because the commands for reading SMS are somewhat standardized, but with adequated docs you can do that with other phones as well. That said, the only thing which is quite a bit complicated is the hard work: mechanical assembly & lcd wiring. I didn't try for myself, but base on what I've read on this list, I must say it's something that requires quite a lot of both time and patience (not to mention care to not destroy things up) :-) But I also read that most people succeed on this attempt, so you may try to get there. Once you have a lcd and a cell phone know to receive SMS, you must decide how to render the messages on the screen. People here mention tinyx and other stuff, I won't speak any further 'cause, as I said, I haven't tried for myself. But the idea is sort of easy going, in pseudo-code this could look like: while (...) { if (cell_phone->smsqueue()) { sms = cell_phone->ReadSMS(); beep_or_something(); sms_display(sms); } sleep_or_something(); } Good luck! Alexandre |
From: Dave S. <da...@sm...> - 2005-12-03 22:16:36
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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> <title></title> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Alexandre Pereira Nunes wrote: <blockquote cite="mid...@om..." type="cite"> <pre wrap="">jj delaforet escreveu: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Dear Mailing list, Due to a car accident my dad is in an hospital with intensive care. I would like to build for him a device which could allow our family to send him SMS which could be displayed on an LCD screen periodically. I thought that the gumstix could help me to build this device. Unfortunately i'm not at all an experienced user of the gumstix (i feel much more confident with linux and ruby or php coding). I have different questions: Do you think that this little project is feasible using gumstix ? Is there someone who had already made something close or similar that i could modify ? Do you think that such a project couldn't be done by a gumstix newbie ? Best regards, JJ </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""><!----> My best regards to your dad! Well, if you use a gsm phone the SMS aspects it's almost a piece of cake. I only mention GSM because the commands for reading SMS are somewhat standardized, but with adequated docs you can do that with other phones as well. That said, the only thing which is quite a bit complicated is the hard work: mechanical assembly & lcd wiring. I didn't try for myself, but base on what I've read on this list, I must say it's something that requires quite a lot of both time and patience (not to mention care to not destroy things up) :-) But I also read that most people succeed on this attempt, so you may try to get there. Once you have a lcd and a cell phone know to receive SMS, you must decide how to render the messages on the screen. People here mention tinyx and other stuff, I won't speak any further 'cause, as I said, I haven't tried for myself. But the idea is sort of easy going, in pseudo-code this could look like: while (...) { if (cell_phone->smsqueue()) { sms = cell_phone->ReadSMS(); beep_or_something(); sms_display(sms); } sleep_or_something(); } Good luck! Alexandre </pre> </blockquote> Best wishes to your father, I hope he has a speedy recovery. I don't know where in the world you are, but UK hospitals do not approve of using mobiles in hospitals for fear of them interfering with the equipment. I would check with the hospital first as to if they would let your equipment into intensive care.<br> <br> If you are doing this to avoid taking a mobile into the hospital, and downloading the messages to take into your father, then it would probably be quicker and easier to buy a cheap PDA like a Palm and some SMS software such as this <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.maxtext.net/">http://www.maxtext.net/</a><br> <br> Regards,<br> Dave<br> <br> </body> </html> |
From: jj d. <del...@gm...> - 2005-12-03 23:48:55
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Dear Dave, Kirk and Alexandre, Thank you for your cheerful and usefull answers, i really appreciate your help and suggestions. As my father is in an Hospital in France, GSM phones are not allowed and there's no wifi... therefore the only solution would be to use an old school, 56 kbps analogic modem. The palm solution is a great idea but the screen is too small for someone who doesn't see very well. In fact i thought that i could use gumstix to be like a mini webserver running a simple web application made with ruby or php. So maybe may i ask you some more precise questions ? Is it possible to use an analog modem with gumstix ? Would it be feasible to let gumstix be in charge of lightning up the screen every 60 minutes, downloading the new sms and afterward display its on an LCD screen ? I really would like to accomplish this project and create a DIY detailed tutorial, because i think that this device could be usefull for people at the Hospital and far away from their families or elderly people for example. Best regards, Jean-Jacques 2005/12/3, Dave Smith <da...@sm...>: > Alexandre Pereira Nunes wrote: > jj delaforet escreveu: > > > > Dear Mailing list, > > Due to a car accident my dad is in an hospital with intensive care. > I would like to build for him a device which could allow our family to > send him SMS which could be displayed on an LCD screen periodically. > I thought that the gumstix could help me to build this device. > Unfortunately i'm not at all an experienced user of the gumstix (i > feel much more confident with linux and ruby or php coding). > I have different questions: > Do you think that this little project is feasible using gumstix ? > Is there someone who had already made something close or similar that > i could modify ? > Do you think that such a project couldn't be done by a gumstix newbie ? > > Best regards, > > JJ > > > > > My best regards to your dad! > > Well, if you use a gsm phone the SMS aspects it's almost a piece of > cake. I only mention GSM because the commands for reading SMS are > somewhat standardized, but with adequated docs you can do that with > other phones as well. > > That said, the only thing which is quite a bit complicated is the hard > work: mechanical assembly & lcd wiring. I didn't try for myself, but > base on what I've read on this list, I must say it's something that > requires quite a lot of both time and patience (not to mention care to > not destroy things up) :-) > > But I also read that most people succeed on this attempt, so you may try > to get there. > > Once you have a lcd and a cell phone know to receive SMS, you must > decide how to render the messages on the screen. People here mention > tinyx and other stuff, I won't speak any further 'cause, as I said, I > haven't tried for myself. > > But the idea is sort of easy going, in pseudo-code this could look like: > > while (...) > { > if (cell_phone->smsqueue()) > { > sms =3D cell_phone->ReadSMS(); > beep_or_something(); > sms_display(sms); > } > sleep_or_something(); > } > > > Good luck! > > Alexandre > > Best wishes to your father, I hope he has a speedy recovery. I don't kn= ow > where in the world you are, but UK hospitals do not approve of using mobi= les > in hospitals for fear of them interfering with the equipment. I would ch= eck > with the hospital first as to if they would let your equipment into > intensive care. > > If you are doing this to avoid taking a mobile into the hospital, and > downloading the messages to take into your father, then it would probably= be > quicker and easier to buy a cheap PDA like a Palm and some SMS software s= uch > as this http://www.maxtext.net/ > > Regards, > Dave > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log fi= les > for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes search= ing > your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! > http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=3D7637&alloc_id=3D16865&op=3Dclick > _______________________________________________ > gumstix-users mailing list > gum...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gumstix-users |
From: Alexandre P. N. <al...@om...> - 2005-12-04 00:02:57
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jj delaforet escreveu: >Dear Dave, Kirk and Alexandre, > >Thank you for your cheerful and usefull answers, i really appreciate >your help and suggestions. >As my father is in an Hospital in France, GSM phones are not allowed >and there's no wifi... therefore the only solution would be to use an >old school, 56 kbps analogic modem. >The palm solution is a great idea but the screen is too small for >someone who doesn't see very well. >In fact i thought that i could use gumstix to be like a mini webserver >running a simple web application made with ruby or php. >So maybe may i ask you some more precise questions ? > > You're welcome. Let's see your questions :-) >Is it possible to use an analog modem with gumstix ? > > If you happen to have a serial modem, yes, you can connect it to one of the serial ports on the gumstix. I did some playing myself with an us robotics external modem and it worked as expected, you should have no problems >Would it be feasible to let gumstix be in charge of lightning up the >screen every 60 minutes, downloading the new sms and afterward display >its on an LCD screen ? > > I read somewhere you can allocate a GPIO to turn the backling on/off on the LCD, so I think it would be ok. >I really would like to accomplish this project and create a DIY >detailed tutorial, because i think that this device could be usefull >for people at the Hospital and far away from their families or elderly >people for example. > >Best regards, > >Jean-Jacques > > > Your idea is very welcome, keep us informed of your progress :-) Cheers, Alexandre |
From: <jo...@de...> - 2005-12-04 01:23:15
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Best wishes to your dad, I hope he makes a quick and full recovery. jj delaforet wrote: > Thank you for your cheerful and usefull answers, i really appreciate > your help and suggestions. > As my father is in an Hospital in France, GSM phones are not allowed > and there's no wifi... therefore the only solution would be to use an > old school, 56 kbps analogic modem. > The palm solution is a great idea but the screen is too small for > someone who doesn't see very well. > In fact i thought that i could use gumstix to be like a mini webserver > running a simple web application made with ruby or php. > So maybe may i ask you some more precise questions ? I don't think there's ruby for the gumstix (yet!), but Craig did mention he had gotten PHP (CLI though) to compile on the gumstix. A more efficient/simpler solution would perhaps be to make it dial up every X minutes, make a request to a remote webserver (using wget or whatnot), displaying it (if needed), then disconnect. This could be done with a simple crontab running a script of your choice. You could do this in perl, or perhaps even /bin/sh. =) Elsewise, you could port another language to the gumstix (Shouldn't be too hard, but it would depend on the language). This could fetch new things and store in plaintext files, then display the contents of these on the LCD. -- Kindest regards / Med vennlig hilsen, Jørgen P. Tjernø <jo...@de...> |
From: Michael P. <mk...@in...> - 2005-12-04 01:37:39
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jj - that sounds like a great solution with the analog modem the gumstix ships with the boa http server onboard - very useful once you hook up an lcd you can get text modes going quite simply and could run a text mode browser (lynx or links for eg) no problems, GUI interface is certainly possible too. What an inspirational project - best wishes to you, your Dad and family !! Michael jj delaforet wrote: >Dear Dave, Kirk and Alexandre, > >Thank you for your cheerful and usefull answers, i really appreciate >your help and suggestions. >As my father is in an Hospital in France, GSM phones are not allowed >and there's no wifi... therefore the only solution would be to use an >old school, 56 kbps analogic modem. >The palm solution is a great idea but the screen is too small for >someone who doesn't see very well. >In fact i thought that i could use gumstix to be like a mini webserver >running a simple web application made with ruby or php. >So maybe may i ask you some more precise questions ? > >Is it possible to use an analog modem with gumstix ? >Would it be feasible to let gumstix be in charge of lightning up the >screen every 60 minutes, downloading the new sms and afterward display >its on an LCD screen ? > >I really would like to accomplish this project and create a DIY >detailed tutorial, because i think that this device could be usefull >for people at the Hospital and far away from their families or elderly >people for example. > >Best regards, > >Jean-Jacques > > > |
From: Kirk M. <km...@ec...> - 2005-12-03 22:09:09
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Hi - I guess you don't want to just use a phone on a mains charger as he would have to press buttons to fetch the sms.... We have used a "maestro" modem - which is about $100 and you put a SIM in it and talk serial to it - an open source smserver prog can then fetch sms messages coming in automatically.... which you can display somehow. http://www.pmsupplies.com/philippine/controls_monitoring.htm you may find a smartphone with a java prog easier though.... Kirk At 21:32 03/12/2005, you wrote: >Dear Mailing list, > >Due to a car accident my dad is in an hospital with intensive care. >I would like to build for him a device which could allow our family to >send him SMS which could be displayed on an LCD screen periodically. >I thought that the gumstix could help me to build this device. >Unfortunately i'm not at all an experienced user of the gumstix (i >feel much more confident with linux and ruby or php coding). >I have different questions: >Do you think that this little project is feasible using gumstix ? >Is there someone who had already made something close or similar that >i could modify ? >Do you think that such a project couldn't be done by a gumstix newbie ? > >Best regards, > >JJ > > >------------------------------------------------------- >This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files >for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes >searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! >http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_idv37&alloc_id865&opick >_______________________________________________ >gumstix-users mailing list >gum...@li... >https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gumstix-users - http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~km |