Angus Ainslie wrote: > On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 6:19 AM, Helge Hafting <helge.haft...@hist.no> wrote: >> There is a program around that is supposed to look for a special keyword >> in a sms, and send a gps reading back. It didn't work when I tried it, >> but this appraoch can be developed into something more robust. Another >> other security idea: Send an SMS to put the phone in "stolen" modus. (Do >> that quickly, before they change the sim card.) >> > > Are you talking about sms-sentry ? > > Which part didn't work ?
I sent the message, from the phone to itself. This was right after installing it. Of course, there was no gps fix inside the building, I didn't expect that to work well. Later I was on a car trip, not driving. So I watched tangogps for a while. Then I got the idea to test again, knowing that the gps was working. So I sent the message again - from the phone to itself. And again nothing happened. The keyed message eventually showed up in the sms inbox, with the first letter removed. Tangogps showed movement all the time. I tried twice, but I never got a reply with any coordinates. > What distro did you try it on ? > SHR of dec.16, which I still use. A good distro in that calls, sms, music, and gps all works - although it could use some polishing. > Did you run it from the command line and check what status messages it > was sending ? > I didn't think of that, it is worth a try. > It works but can take a very very long time to get a fix and return > the SMS you are waiting for. > I know - so therefore I tested it when I already had a good fix. gpsd is supposed to be able to serve several clients at the same time. Helge Hafting _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community