Its been a while since I've posted anything here, and its usually because before I submit the form, I find my solution. However, I'm feeling somewhat "in over my head" on an enhancement to a project of mine.
Under a LAMP config, I've written a web app that displays my work schedule, home schedule, school schedule, notes (Typically honey-do notes), displays a yearly calendar including all previously mentioned schedules, and a grocery list. It works rather well, and I'm getting my wife to use it more often. SCORE FOR ME. :] This software (I call HomeCal) is not publicly accessible to the Internet, and is setup to run only on my home LAN or via VPN. Apache is hard wired to only allow LAN IP addresses to connect to this service. (Basically,
Bottom line, what I want to do is when I push a button on HomeCal, the current grocery list is transmitted to both my cell phone, as well as my wifes cell phone, both of which are on two different providers (Rogers and Telus). What the grocery list contains could be just plain text, or, HTML to make it look fancy in a browser, or whatever.
100% of the time when I'd be using HomeCal and broadcasting a new grocery list to my phones, I would at least be in Cell Service area, so an immediate push to the phones 'should' be successful at that time.
I've looked at SMS, but, I have to tell the Rogers bots to authorize the text message every time I send a message to my phone. EMailing is also kind of out of the question as I have anything to do with syncing on my phone turned off.
I've looked at DropBox, but my problem with that is that the DropBox application must be actively running on the phone, and the phone is either on my wifi or in cell service to get an active sync going. I try to run as few applications and services on my phone for battery longevity.
I've quickly looked at GCM (Google Cloud Messaging) but it looks like I'd have to write some Java code and have a service/application run on my phone. I took Java in my college days and absolutely none of it stuck. I can setup a work environment without too much of an issue, but doing the actual coding and stuff.. well... invest in WD-40 stock if I take that on.
So given those three options, I've not put out of my mind the feasibility of just my getting un-lazy and remember that when we're on our way out to get groceries, I forcefully have my phone update the list as a text file through a web server that is exposed to the internet, and download a text file, or have DropBox load and update.
Are there any other options available anyone can think of that'd get to my end goal of pushing a button on my HomeCal web page and have data transferred to my cell phone?
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NEVER send the boss to do a techs job
Under a LAMP config, I've written a web app that displays my work schedule, home schedule, school schedule, notes (Typically honey-do notes), displays a yearly calendar including all previously mentioned schedules, and a grocery list. It works rather well, and I'm getting my wife to use it more often. SCORE FOR ME. :] This software (I call HomeCal) is not publicly accessible to the Internet, and is setup to run only on my home LAN or via VPN. Apache is hard wired to only allow LAN IP addresses to connect to this service. (Basically,
Bottom line, what I want to do is when I push a button on HomeCal, the current grocery list is transmitted to both my cell phone, as well as my wifes cell phone, both of which are on two different providers (Rogers and Telus). What the grocery list contains could be just plain text, or, HTML to make it look fancy in a browser, or whatever.
100% of the time when I'd be using HomeCal and broadcasting a new grocery list to my phones, I would at least be in Cell Service area, so an immediate push to the phones 'should' be successful at that time.
I've looked at SMS, but, I have to tell the Rogers bots to authorize the text message every time I send a message to my phone. EMailing is also kind of out of the question as I have anything to do with syncing on my phone turned off.
I've looked at DropBox, but my problem with that is that the DropBox application must be actively running on the phone, and the phone is either on my wifi or in cell service to get an active sync going. I try to run as few applications and services on my phone for battery longevity.
I've quickly looked at GCM (Google Cloud Messaging) but it looks like I'd have to write some Java code and have a service/application run on my phone. I took Java in my college days and absolutely none of it stuck. I can setup a work environment without too much of an issue, but doing the actual coding and stuff.. well... invest in WD-40 stock if I take that on.
So given those three options, I've not put out of my mind the feasibility of just my getting un-lazy and remember that when we're on our way out to get groceries, I forcefully have my phone update the list as a text file through a web server that is exposed to the internet, and download a text file, or have DropBox load and update.
Are there any other options available anyone can think of that'd get to my end goal of pushing a button on my HomeCal web page and have data transferred to my cell phone?
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NEVER send the boss to do a techs job
