my mother in law is hard of hearing and uses text messaging alot however she sometimes misses the texts as she can not hear the sms notification on the phone and the phone is not close enough to hear the vibration.
i am hoping to make a sort of flashing light device that will flash when a text message is recieved (this is for use in the home so would not need to be portable) i was hoping to use an arduino and bluetooth shield to accomplish this. however i am unsure how once i have paired the phone and arduino if the arduino will be able to realise the phone has recieved a message. The optimistic part of me says this is possible but the realistic part of me says that this will have more to do with the phone software limitations not broadcasting that a message has been recieved. i am pretty sure i could write and android listener service to do this but i was hoping to be able to do this on not smart phones i.e. nokia symbian phones without programing the phone.
could anyone know if this is possible to do and if so am i going to have to write a server type software for the phone (i.e. android listener) and have the arduino as client or is it possible to check for recieved messages on anyphone using the bluetooth shield.