SMS chat

Thijs_ · Post by **Thijs_** » Wed May 12, 2004 21:21

I'm searching some information about SMS chat programs.

I want during the VJ set a sms chat banner at the bottom of my screen. I suppose i'll need 2 pc's and a mixer. That's no problem.

But now i'm searching for a GOOD, easy to use SMS chat program so that i can connect my phone to my computer. I don't want a special SMS number, just use the phone number.

the only program i found up till now is
http://www.codesegment.com

does anyone know the program? or are there much better progs?

eno@smvisuals.com_ · Post by **eno@smvisuals.com_** » Wed May 12, 2004 22:31

I did some promotions for Sony Ericsson like this. It was real popular in the clubs. We ended up faking it after a bit of testing though... The operator (me) had a phone to receive the sms. low tech I know but it worked. I had a cheap laptop running powerpoint feeding a channel on a mixer. When I'd get new text messages, I'd pop them into another powerpoint slide and play. Mix to the PP show for a couple of loops. then mix back to visuals to add/replace more text.

Low tech but it worked like a charm.

SuperficiaL_ · Post by **SuperficiaL_** » Thu May 13, 2004 00:23

Hi guys,

i gues if u dont want to invest a whole lot of money, u can do it this way...
with some programming and flash u can make your own internet based sms chat program.
just make a flashfile with dynamic textline link it to a server and your done...
u will still need to get the text on the server but thats not too hard if u got a webserver, maybe on the clubs website?

good luck,
SuperficiaL...

Post by **edwin** » Thu May 13, 2004 10:42

hi there,
i have a two suggestions

suggestion 1
i don't know wether this service is also available outside of holland but we have a service called gin.nl.
there are several things that you can do...
1 : receive an sms when you receive an email ( we receive an sms each time we sell a copy of resolume

)
2 : send an email with sms (EMAIL [telnr]@gin.nl YOUR MESSAGE)
etc... very handy if you hate the mobile phone interface for typing text like me...

suggestion 2

i once made a sms receiver with a my previous phone (nokia) wich was connected to my computer, i could sent an sms with an application i made on my computer and i got a notification and saw the message on my computer screen when i received an sms. The problem is that i can't find it anymore...
If you have a nokia phone check out their website, they have a SDK (software development kit) and it includes several samples wich are allready doing a lot of things you want......
find someone to adjust the sample prog to let it do exactly what you want and voila.... And after that make a freeframe plugin of it

cheers
Edwin

hendrik_ · Post by **hendrik_** » Thu May 13, 2004 12:26

I have made a small SMS chat program that worked in Resolume. The GSM was a nokia phone (a really cheap one, 3310) and the program I used was http://www.oxygensoftware.com/ phone manager. The trial version had enough functionality for everytime it received an SMS it downloaded it automatically to the PC. Everytime an SMS was received I exported the SMS data to a cvs tab delimited file (export included in phone manager). I wrote a PHP script which fetched the three last received SMS messages. And then i wrote a flash interface which calles the PHP script. The flash file was loaded in resolume. The server/phone manager was running on anotheer laptop. Both were connected through a router (although any network connection would do of course).

This worked really well. Except in terms of scalability. We didn't expect to receive that many SMS's. So the manual exporting is really the bottleneck. I lost quite a few messages in the beginning.

Next time I'll do the same setup, adjust the PHP script a little and replace the phone wit a nokia 6210. this has a modem builtin and will work with sms gateways like nowsms. This little program not only doanloads the sms's automatically it can also trigger commands like updating the SMS data in a daabase like mysql. This will make the whole process automatically. Also in my to do list is a buffermechanism so a message stays for at least 10 secs and then a newer messages (if available) will be displayed.

If all goes well, we'll do it on a big festival in belgium somewhere in July. I guess the thing will be ready by then and I'd be delighted to share it with you all.

Wouldn't it be nice if we a repository where we could share these resolume related projects

Cheers

Hendrik dacquin

Ruud · Post by **Ruud** » Wed Jan 12, 2005 16:27

nice it would be!!

heard about the SMS manager freeware? frontline software:

http://www.vjcentral.com/software/show/11257

you can all use my login

so you won't have to sign up:
Benutzername: ruudje
Passwort: Kuqtus

yes it is german! ... the only thing I need to proceed is a SWF txt file to load in resolume, which reads the sms messages from the text files...

levon · Post by **levon** » Thu Jan 13, 2005 07:43

hmm, and how about getting MMS (photos and videos) from your phone to a directory on your computer you could then use to play in resolume

Ruud · Post by **Ruud** » Sat Jan 15, 2005 21:30

yeah right that sure would be cool but i think ... think ... that it also cost money to recieve mms on celluar ... maybe that bull$## i don't know,

why don't we first discuss the sms service,

anyone checked the frontline messenger on vjcentral? (link ^)

levon · Post by **levon** » Sun Jan 16, 2005 03:47

i had a look at that program a while ago, though my mobile wasnt the right one. what it lets you do is any sms that get sent to your phone get uploaded and deleted off the phone, then the program writes the sms to a text file. so if you make a flash file that has a dynamic text field, you can just drag the txt file to the flash clip and it will work.

mechanique · Post by **mechanique** » Fri Feb 25, 2005 01:49

Yeah I use Frontline's sms software. I made a scroller for the messages, which can be ran in Flash mode (inside resolume) or as standalone (I made an .exe out of it) so that you can cut it with a video mixer.
By the way, does any of you know any cheap vid mixer that can do a wipe? I'm supposed to run 3 different numbers in 3 different floors but it gets expensive to buy 3 Edirol V4...
By the way, that SMS Studio is very good indeed. Maybe I'll buy it...