Developing app for sms forwarding, missed call notification, auto-responding

[ZaijiaN]

Originally Posted by mreastwood

I bet this program will suck. Nah just kidding sounds like a must I don't think i will need it for myself but you never know what the future holds. Just wanted to know will this program work if i just want to turn ringer off? What im trying to say is will this program have a feature like a "do not disturb" feature. Congrats on the marriage.

I don't have any plans right now to actually silence the system/phone volume but it's something that wouldn't be hard to put in later. I'm thinking the idea would be that you have your own "do not disturb" profile where you could set options like "suppress all sound/notifications" and have rules and actions to auto-respond to calls/sms with a "i'm not available, try back later" message.

[isforced]

how about my mobile assistant

[ZaijiaN]

Crap, there goes my goal for having a beta by the new year!

But it should be soon now, i'm just working on the UI!

[EMSChiefNJ]

great - thanks for the update!

[ZaijiaN]

Getting closer! The GUI is mostly done, so what's left to do is some basic polish, error reporting, etc.

Hopefully i'll have something to demo this week!

[ZaijiaN]

I'm choosing the following for beta-testing (sorry if you weren't chosen, if there's another round you'll get in):

EMSChiefNJ
6700Yuma
jaodnam
gearjunkeez
shaggylive


So far, I've been developing for WM6 Professional / .NET 2.0. But it should work with WM5 and/or .NET 3.5. That means the requirements are
1. WM w/ touchscreen
2. .NET 2.0

Please let me know if this is not compatible for you!

[ZaijiaN]

A little teaser!

First, the main screen of the app:
Shows a profile named "archive", which we'll dive into


The profile has an SmsRule (there is also IncomingCallRule, MissedCallRule, and VoicemailRule)


The rule has no criteria, but you can do criteria based on time, sms sender (contact), and sms body (message).
There is a MessageAction named "send email". For right now, you can only do MessageActions, but I should get GpsActions, and LogActions done for the next beta stage.


This is the MessageAction editor, you can send to other mobiles as SMS, and/or to email addresses.


You can configure the message subject however you want using variables (which are available in the menu).


The message body is likewise configurable.


Once you're done modifying the Profile, it'll show you the profile list


Then you can individually enable/disable profiles.

[chaser74]

looks very good. i know last month wheni was on jury duty it would have been neat to have

[Perasite]

I'm very excited about this. We started transferring our entire network at work yesterday to a new IP scheme, so I've got printers to reconfigure and add back to computers, DHCP servers to redo, web servers to change, Access Points to reconfigure, and DNS to redo. WHEEEEEEEEE!!!!! As soon as I can breathe, I'm gonna give this a go.

[JAVIERBOND007]

Got for it! Great idea, i would definitely use an application capable of doing that...