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Send Text Message to Cell Phone

by Ke Feng

 

29 Sep 2007 (Updated 01 Oct 2007)

Send text message to cell phone or other mobile devices

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Use this function to send text message to cell phone or other mobile devices. Currently, it works for US based cell phones only.

I found it useful for people who does time-consuming computations constantly. My lab mate often called me in and asked me to check his computer to see if his computations are over. I made this small function for him so he get notified on his cell phone when the computation is done, and he loves it. I think others might like it as well.

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TxtMsg Create
MATLAB release MATLAB 7.4 (R2007a)
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Comments and Ratings (22)
01 Oct 2007 Kelly Kearney

This is an excellent solution to the frustrations associated with running models overnight, only to discover the next morning that something crashed an hour after it started. Very well-documented and easy to use.

01 Oct 2007 Nick C

This would be awsome if I were in the US :(

29 Oct 2007 Robert Flight

Looks pretty good, but a couple of comments. This should work for anyone who has a gmail account, and knows the email address that their cell carrier uses for text messaging. For example, I am in Canada, and my cell company is Aliant, and the email address they use is '@txt.aliant.net'. Therefore I can easily add a case 'aliant', with the address '@txt.aliant.net', and it will work fine for me.

I would also recommend creating two matlab *.mat files, one containing the password (named something cryptic) and the email address to send to, thereby making it a little bit harder for someone to get your password.

05 Dec 2007 janet looloo

good

06 Dec 2007 tariq tam

thank you

06 Dec 2007 tariq-tam TAM  
17 Dec 2007 Bassam Abdelnabi  
09 Jan 2008 Santiago Balestrini

This is a great script! Well documented too!

I would like to see something done about the password too, my solution was to create an account in Gmail for our entire lab. If anybody messes with it, I can just create a new account.

15 Jan 2008 Steve Harston

When I try this code I get the following error:

??? Java exception occurred:
java.net.SocketException: Connection reset

at java.net.SocketInputStream.read(Unknown Source)

at java.net.SocketInputStream.read(Unknown Source)

at java.io.DataInputStream.readLine(Unknown Source)
.

Error in ==> sendmail>readmsg at 377
msg=char(readLine(in));

Error in ==> sendmail at 125
[status, code] = okSMTP(readmsg(in));

I know that it has something to do with accessing the email account and I have tried setting different properties but the error is still occurring. Does anyone have any idea how to fix this? Thanks

23 Jan 2008 Yokesh R  
17 Feb 2008 vatsla k  
02 Mar 2008 saint pierre gadiano

good

13 May 2008 Jason Merrill

As an alternative, follow these instructions to set up sendmail:

http://www.mathworks.com/support/solutions/data/1-3PRRDV.html

and then use teleflip.com, a free e-mail to SMS converter:

sendmail('5555555555@teleflip.com','','Calculation Finished')

06 Mar 2009 farah

How to set the number...
it give me an error
??? Input argument "number" is undefined.

Error in ==> send_text_message at 38
number = strrep(number, '-', '');
 

10 Jun 2009 Sherif

Excellent work.
I am in Canada, and my cell company is Rogers, and the email address they use is '@pcs.rogers.com'. I added the following line, and it worked fine.
 
case 'rogers'; emailto = strcat(number,'@pcs.rogers.com');

11 Jun 2009 Rene

dont work at all

??? Error using ==> sendmail at 168
Could not connect to SMTP host: smtp.gmail.com, port: 25;
Connection timed out: connect

Error in ==> send_text_message at 82
sendmail(emailto,subject,message)

13 Jun 2009 Greg

I get the same error message

??? Error using ==> sendmail
Could not establish connection with smtp.gmail.com on port 25.

01 Oct 2009 Brian Keats

I get the following error:
??? Error using ==> sendmail at 168
Exception reading response;
Connection reset
Anyone know how to fix it?

30 Oct 2009 Alec

I get the ??? Error using ==> sendmail at 168
Exception reading response;
Connection reset
 also... Gmail must have changed the port #...

12 Aug 2011 K E

A very useful part of this submission is the permission setup (setpref) for Gmail. Matlab's documentation did not result in my being able to send texts from Gmail, but Ke Feng's permissions did. Interestingly I can text all kinds of carriers from my Gmail account but not from my work email, maybe because the authentication level is higher. If you have to text a bunch of people on different carriers and are having trouble, try doing it from Gmail using Ke Feng's permissions.

12 Sep 2011 Mr Smart  
10 Jan 2012 Bob Schafer

Just a note that AT&T has changed their email-to-text info, so line ~47 should now read:

    case 'att'; emailto = strcat(number,'@txt.att.net');

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sms Ke Feng 22 Oct 2008 09:29:33
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