Sending image using cellular shield

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Hi everyone,

As part of a project i'm doing currenty I want to send an image (which is stored on a SD card connected to my arduino UNO) to a cellphone as MMS.
I'm using SM5100B cellular shield (support GPRS), and I found many examples of sending and recieving SMS but nothing similar to what i'm looking.

So...if anyone have done something like that and can share, it would be great.
Or if anyone can give me some direction/guideness of how it's done.

Thanks!

2

Do the following calculation.

Take the number of bits/sec that you can pass data from the ardunio to your cellphone card at and divide by 4. This give you a good idea of the speed you real get.

Take the size of the image file and multiply by 8 to get the file size in bits.

Now work out how long it will take to send all that data.

Now ask why no one bothers.

Mark

3

I don't really care how long it will take just need it to work

4

You might try something similar to the below ethernet code.

//zoomkat 12/26/12
//SD server test code
//open serial monitor to see what the arduino receives
//address will look like http://192.168.1.102:84 when submited
//for use with W5100 based ethernet shields

#include <SD.h>
#include <SPI.h>
#include <Ethernet.h>

byte mac[] = { 
  0xDE, 0xAD, 0xBE, 0xEF, 0xFE, 0xED }; //physical mac address
byte ip[] = { 
  192, 168, 1, 102 }; // ip in lan
byte gateway[] = { 
  192, 168, 1, 1 }; // internet access via router
byte subnet[] = { 
  255, 255, 255, 0 }; //subnet mask
EthernetServer server(84); //server port
String readString; 

//////////////////////

void setup(){

  Serial.begin(9600);

  // disable w5100 while setting up SD
  pinMode(10,OUTPUT);
  digitalWrite(10,HIGH);
  Serial.print("Starting SD..");
  if(!SD.begin(4)) Serial.println("failed");
  else Serial.println("ok");

  Ethernet.begin(mac, ip, gateway, gateway, subnet);
  //delay(2000);
  server.begin();
  Serial.println("Ready");
}

void loop(){
  // Create a client connection
  EthernetClient client = server.available();
  if (client) {
    while (client.connected()) {
      if (client.available()) {
        char c = client.read();

        //read char by char HTTP request
        if (readString.length() < 100) {
          //store characters to string 
          readString += c; 
          //Serial.print(c);
        } 
        //if HTTP request has ended
        if (c == '\n') {

          ///////////////
          Serial.println(readString); //print to serial monitor for debuging 

            client.println("HTTP/1.1 200 OK"); //send new page
          //client.println("Content-Type: text/html");
          client.println("Content-Type: image/jpeg");
          //client.println("Content-Type: image/gif");
          //client.println("Content-Type: application/x-javascript");
          //client.println("Content-Type: text");

          client.println();

          //File myFile = SD.open("boom.htm");
          File myFile = SD.open("HYPNO.JPG");
          //File myFile = SD.open("BLUEH_SL.GIF");
          //File myFile = SD.open("SERVOSLD.HTM");

          if (myFile) {

            byte clientBuf[64];
            int clientCount = 0;

            while(myFile.available())
            {
              clientBuf[clientCount] = myFile.read();
              clientCount++;

              if(clientCount > 63)
              {
                // Serial.println("Packet");
                client.write(clientBuf,64);
                clientCount = 0;
              }
            }
            //final <64 byte cleanup packet
            if(clientCount > 0) client.write(clientBuf,clientCount);            
            // close the file:
            myFile.close();
          }
          delay(1);
          //stopping client
          client.stop();
          readString="";
        }
      }
    }
  } 
}