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I'm thinking of using a ethernet arduino as a water leak detector (sponges with stainless steel probes with one side having a resistor and the other side going to a digital input).

But I want it to be able to send my phone an SMS if there is a leak detected and also a daily sms so I know everything is working.

I looked around and found http://txtdrop.net

They let you send an sms via a web form.

after looking over some old threads

Here is the text of the form at txtdrop.net

Code:

<table width="382" height="100" border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0">
                <td width="120"><tr>
<form action="" method="post" form name="tabform">
                  <td width="158">From:</td>
                  <td width="179"><div align="center">

<input type="text" name="name" id="name" size="24" maxlength="21" />
                  </div></td>
                </tr>
                <tr>
                  <td>To:</td>
                  <td width="258">
                  <input name="number" type="text" id="number" size="13" onKeyup="autotab(this, document.tabform.body)" maxlength="13" /></td>
                </tr>
<tr>
<td>Carrier:</td>
<td>
<select name="carrier" id="carrier" class="style3">
<option value="38"> AT&T Wireless</option>
</select></class></td>
</tr>
                <tr>
                  <td>Message:</td>
                  <td><textarea name="body" cols="28" rows="3" wrap="PHYSICAL" class="style4" id="textarea" onkeyup="onTypeNotes()"></textarea></td>
                </tr>
                <tr>
                  <td>&nbsp;</td>
                  <td>
  <input type="hidden" name="submitted" value="1"> <input type="submit" name="submit" value="Send" /></td>

So I can up with:

client.println("POST HTTP/1.1")
client.println("Host: www.mysite.com")
client.println("User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0")
client.println("Content-Length: 39")            // Change to be number of characters in POST line between quotes
client.println("Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded")

client.println("name=yes@no.com&number=1234567890&carrier=38&textarea=HELP!! Water leak in BASEMENT SENSOR #1&submit=Send");

Is this right?

does the "submit=Send" have to be in there?

Thanks

[Reply #1 on:]

Can someone help with a way to call a simple fuction to use txtdrop.com to send txt message from arduino?

There is a widget at the site to create html code for websites. http://www.txtdrop.com/generate.php
The code generated sends variables to http://www.txtdrop.com/send.php

Maybe Browseurl or a get command?

Maybe a function and pass string variable to change to change the message.

I use ethercard library and am trying to do this any help would be appreciated.

[Reply #2 on:]

When you use one of these services to send a text, they are just sending an email to a specific number. Each cell carrier uses a different email address. For example, to send a text to an AT&T phone, you would send an email to x@txt.att.net, where x = the person's 10 digit phone number. Most of these services just use a lookup table to find out what email address to use with what phone number. Here a site listing all the addresses: http://www.emailtextmessages.com/

Its really simple to use PHP to send an email, just look around for tutorials online.

[Reply #3 on:]

Txtdrop.com is php.  I need a simple command to use them.

this is the code generated by thier widget

p><center>
<form>action="http://www.txtdrop.com/send.php" method="POST" target="_blank"><input type="hidden" name="number" value="xxxxxxxxxx">
<textarea>name="body" rows="3" cols="25" size="145">Drop Me A Txt</textarea><br>
<a href=http://www.txtdrop.com>txtDrop.com</a><input type=submit value="Text Me"></form>
</center></p>

this is somthing I came up with and doesnt work. needs more variables?

Stash::prepare(PSTR("GET http://www.txtdrop.com/send.php? type="hidden" name="number" value="xxxxxxxxxx" body="cold" HTTP/1.1"


ether.browseUrl(PSTR("GET http://www.txtdrop.com/send.php?type=hidden name=number value=xxxxxxxxxx body=cold HTTP/1.1")



This should be easy I am just missing something

[Reply #4 on:]

You can use SMTP to send SMS:

http://arduino.cc/forum/index.php?action=printpage;topic=119014.0