Internet Connectivity ALARMS
- Thread starter funky
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I have been looking for a simple interface to allow my systems to send SMS messages to my cell phone.
I found this: http://www.redcoal.com/mida.aspx
The cost is $44 per 1000 messages. I have not yet programmed to this interface. Anyone had success with something like this?
There are several free interfaces like this:
http://cellphones.about.com/library/bl_send_free_sms.htm
It should be possible to automatically submit a web form to these SMS sites.
Anyone know of any alternatives?
How about http://www.bb4.com/ ? The basic version is free and for the professional version they offer a free 30-day trial. I never had the time to test it though. Maybe someone can post a review? 
lol I think you guys forget that when you're connection goes down it'll be pretty hard to send a SMS over the internet 
You'd need an outside resource like a server on a different network that constantly pings your machine and sends off an sms, email, whatever once it doesn't receive a reply
You'd need an outside resource like a server on a different network that constantly pings your machine and sends off an sms, email, whatever once it doesn't receive a reply
Quote from funky:
i was thinking more along the lines of an audio alert so i can hear it when i'm in the shower
well, I think something like DUmeter (google fot it) , can do this job for you.
It's a bandwidth meter, you can set an alarm that triggers when the data transfer rate has dropped below the thresold value you set ,in a x amount of seconds.
YOu can check what's your average data transfer when receiving data for trading so you can set it properly.
Quote from tomf:
lol I think you guys forget that when you're connection goes down it'll be pretty hard to send a SMS over the internet
You'd need an outside resource like a server on a different network that constantly pings your machine and sends off an sms, email, whatever once it doesn't receive a reply
My server's internet connection is reliable enough not to worry about that. This is to notify me if IB or Globex goes down, or if the market goes nuts and my stops don't execute or something.
Quote from tomf:
lol I think you guys forget that when you're connection goes down it'll be pretty hard to send a SMS over the internet
You'd need an outside resource like a server on a different network that constantly pings your machine and sends off an sms, email, whatever once it doesn't receive a reply
You don't need an internet connection since you can send SMS directly via a GSM modem.
However you are correct regarding a second PC monitoring the first one.