Any SMS advice for a university project

[ColinM]

I would appreciate if anybody could offer some assistance for a university project i must complete.I know that this site is mainly web based technologies but i just thought i would give it a shot anyway.
I aim to send an sms text message from a mobile phone to another (Nokia) mobile phone which is attached to a computer.I then wish to read these incoming text messages from the phone into the computer at regular intervals.This text message data will be similar to the following:

blue,black,green,red

In other words a comma seperated list.
My eventual goal is to place each element of the text message into a databases table.

I need advice about getting the text message into the computer from the phone and then getting this data into a database table.Even if i could get the text message data into a Visual Basic variable i have written comma seperation code and can place each element of data into an MS Access database table.
I also need to be able to send a command to the phone to delete the messages from the phones inbox to make room for more incoming text messages.
I hope to do all of the above in the simplest way possible due to time contraints, hopefully without the use of complicated programming technologies such as Java, C++ etc...
It may be useful to note that i have discovered one way to read the text messages into MS Hyperterminal using an "AT command" (at+cmgl="ALL"). Maybe there is a way for me to use this data from Hyperterminal and somehow seperate the message into individual pieces of data and then place them in a DB table.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated,
Yours Sincerely,
Colin M

[Zamba]

Hi Colin,

if you have already any code in VB, you should continue to code there. What's missing in your program is the serial communication. A simple solution would be the MSComm control. That's your HyperTerminal "replacement".

Note that when reading messages using text mode from the phone, you might have to decode some special characters - can't tell you exactly which, but I know that HyperTerminal has extra code in it to handle that automatically.


Zamba

[andthereitgoes]

Hi Colin M

I was wandering how are you able to read your SMS messages
from the PC.

I know the AT Command Set but i am not able to implement it.
I cannot understand how am i supposed to query the phone.
This is one problem

Another problem is that i am using an infrared device to communicate with the infra red port of the phone.
I am not able to do this either.

So if you could help me out it would be great.

I hope you would understand a need of a student doing a project for his university just like you.

Andthere

[andthereitgoes]

Hi Zamba

it would be great if you could render some hlep too.

See i just need to know how exactly should i communicate
with the infra red port of phone using the infra red device that i have.

I am unable to do that.
Some code example would be appreciated

Thanks for your help.

Andthere

[Zamba]

@Andthere:

Depending on the infrared device and its drivers, you can possibly create a virtual COM port on the PC and can communicate with it just like a normal serial (RS232) connection. Don't ask me about "real" IR-communication. I don't know.

What do need about implementing AT commands?
* The command sequence?
* (Serial) communication in general?
* Something else?
Please tell.

On Forum Nokia I once found document called "AT_help.pdf" (or similar). It describes in simple steps how to send and read an SMS using HyperTerminal. It helped me at the beginning, it may help you, too.

Zamba

[andthereitgoes]

Thanks for your reply ZAMBA

Firstly

How do i create a virtual com port out of the IR Device.
Any help would be great. I have no clue.

Secondly
Where can i find that AT_Command help file that you were talking about.
Could you mail it to me if you dont mind?
Let me know if u can help on this front too.

Thanks for yor help


Andthere

[Zamba]

The first one:
Try IRCOMM2K. http://www.ircomm2k.de/

or read this: http://homepage.ntlworld.com/alanjmc...XPand2000.html

There are many other articles written about Infrared support in windows, try google.


The second one:
AT help document (short but helpful):
http://nds1.nokia.com/phones/files/g...kia_AThelp.pdf

Complete AT command reference:
http://www.forum.nokia.com/main/1,65...ml&fileID=2230


Zamba

[andthereitgoes]

hi

thanks for the links
particularly the IRCOMM2K one.
That was an eye opener.

Any how do you use Hyper terminal to talk to a phone device using MSCOMM..
Could you provide some sample code.

Thanks for all the help uptil now..

Andthere