Thread: [Announce] SMScon (control your device with SMS)
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digitalvoid is offline digitalvoid
2010-09-24 , 09:47
Posts: 200 | Thanked: 300 times | Joined on Nov 2009 @ The Netherlands
#254
Originally Posted by cipper View Post
hello everybody, this app is becoming greater as days passes on.

actually, I'm encountering an issue related to email transmission: if I'm connected to wlan and press the "email" or "email with picture" button in the test page of SMSCon-editor, it disconnects from wifi and tries to connect via gprs. This is very bad since I don't want to permit any data connection through mobile carrier. Why doesn't it send the email via wifi?
The philosophy behind the app is that it creates a possibilty to retieve your phone when lost (or even stolen).

Crusial in this case is a reliable data connection for sending the requested data back (for email or SSH connection setup). I have chosen for this a cellular connection (GPRS), because this (almost) always will work if there is phone reception. When your phone is lying in some remote area, a WLAN will ever help you, because it has to little range and can be restricted by firewall, passwords etc.

When valid SMS commands are send to SMSCON and has to send an email (or it must setup the SSH connection) it will use the GPRS data connection. If you are persitent never to use any data connection through mobile carrier, this app won't work for you.

But for not completely ruling it out:

I can change the way the test email uses a data connection:
  • email test using WLAN if already connected.
  • email test using GPRS when not connected to any data connection.
Last edited by digitalvoid; 2010-09-24 at 10:30. Reason: typo
 

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