sending alerts to my Windows Mobile phone

[Jesse Rink]

My cell phone is able to receive text messages. However, I'm having difficulty figuring out how to get SIM to send messages to it for alerts. I do not want it to use email, but instead use the modem connected to the server.

Reason being that when my firewall goes down, I lose internet connetivity which prevents those SIM notifications from going out.

Is it possible to use a new phone like Windows Mobile and set it up to receive Pager notifications? I see an option for this in SIM, but I don't even know if this is possible, nor do I know what PIN # it's asking for, etc.

Anyone doing this?

[David Claypool]

The pager application supplied with HP SIM is for a standard alphanumeric pager using TAPI. Note that this is NOT the same as the SMS format typically used by mobile phones. If your service provider provides a TAPI gateway, then this could be used. For most people an email gateway is what is required.

Microsoft provides a free *unsupported* utility that will send SMS messages, but the requirement is to have a mobile phone connected to the computer to use as the SMS gateway. Search Microsoft for "smssender"