> > > At the moment I'm testing this out: poweron, register, send message
> > > to self, receive own message, wait a few seconds and pending mesages
> > > come in, powerdown... seems to achieve the aim, but not a perfect
> > > solution (some carriers may not allow message to self, wasting power
> > > sending extra messages, who pays for them, cell module doesn't appear
> to know it's own number etc).
> >
> > I'm not sure I've EVERY encountered a carrier that doesn't allow one
> > to send a text to themselves, don't see why that would be a special cas=
e.
> > Obviously you're sending the text, so you'd pay for it?
>=20
> I checked again and you may be right, the carrier I thought didn't allow =
it does
> in fact allow text to self. Yes the sender of the text would have to pay =
for
> these. In this case if the device sent a text to self once every powerup =
time
> (10 minutes) that would be 6 x 24 x 30 =3D 4320 text's per month... a hig=
h
> number compared to the handful of texts per day or month the user would
> typically send to the device. A further complication is that it seems
> most/some carriers don't program the phone number into the SIM card, that
> is to say the modem can't find out what it's own number is. That would be
> kind of a hassle with this project as there's not an appropriate user int=
erface
> to program a number in easily.

Maybe the solution is to get a Huawei Mifi dongle from Amazon (they sell th=
em unlocked) and use that for sending and receiving texts. Mine certainly d=
eals with texts.


--=20
Scanned by iCritical.

--=20
http://www.piclist.com/techref/piclist PIC/SX FAQ & list archive
View/change your membership options at
http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist
.