Stuart McLachlan
stuart at lexacorp.com.pg
Mon Apr 1 16:34:19 CDT 2013
That certainly doesn't sound like anything a simple keypad can do. You clearly need something which is programmable with WIFI or GSM capability to connect to the internet. Will it be a fixed installtion wired into mains power ? On 1 Apr 2013 at 10:29, Paul Hartland wrote: > Stuart, > > Hope the sailing weekend was good. > > A bit more of the idea, in a centrally located office I will have a piece > of software looking for new emails coming in, when an email comes in it > will grab the line of text and put it into a table those bits I can do. > > The numeric keypad (or now possibly thinking card reader) unit can't be > connected to anything else as some of the homes may not have PC's, it will > have to be self emcompassing being able to send it's own email or sms > possibly using mobile phone technology. When a user enters a number (or > now possibly scans a card) I need to unit to send a single line of text > (UNITSERIALNO|USERNO|DATETIME) to the centrally located office location, I > think it may utilise some type of access and time managment hardward which > I found in one of your links. > > Paul > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On 31 March 2013 23:30, Stuart McLachlan <stuart at lexacorp.com.pg> wrote: > > > Hi Paul, > > > > Just back from a sailing weekend so haven't seen this til now > > > > What exactly do you mean by a "keypad"? > > > > Something like these? > > > > http://catalogs.indiamart.com/products/handheld-terminal.html > > > > or just one of these? > > > > > > http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/category/category_slc.asp?MfrId=0&CatId=536 > > > > > > What will the keypad be connecting to? > > What sort of connection? Wired/wireless > > > > > > -- > > Stuart > > > > On 29 Mar 2013 at 21:15, Paul Hartland wrote: > > > > > To all, > > > > > > I have an idea and I am hoping the one part of it or something very > > similar > > > already exists. I want a numerical keypad that when the * or # key is > > > pressed it can sent a line of text to a table on a database. > > > > > > My first thought would be that if it would send an email or sms (if sms > > > could go through a 3rd party to convert to email), then I could write an > > > app to scan the email address every so often and put the line of text > > into > > > my table, which I have done before. > > > > > > So basically I need to know if any of you know if such a keypad unit > > > exists, they would be site based i.e. could be in a home or office. > > > > > > If anyone can help or point me in the right direction I would be > > grateful/ > > > > > > > > > -- > > > Paul Hartland > > > paul.hartland at googlemail.com > > > _______________________________________________ > > > dba-Tech mailing list > > > dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com > > > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech > > > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > dba-Tech mailing list > > dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com > > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech > > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > > > > > > -- > Paul Hartland > paul.hartland at googlemail.com > _______________________________________________ > dba-Tech mailing list > dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com >