Text Message Reminders

[Stephen Kowski]

ah....first I only thought that news organizations would send me alerts waking me up in the middle of the night, but now I can get something interesting from CD....awesome....btw verfication worked very smoothly....

[Tom Bottiglieri]

I got the verification message 2 seconds after I cliked OK.

Awesome..

But Brandon, I am not able to remove the debug reminders. Will those actually send? If they do it's not a problem, but I think I'm over my text limit. Either way, its only 2 cents.

[Joe Matt]

Easy set up, as always. It sent, and I thought I had my phone on silence, but it rang in the middle of my class. Ooops!

Do you think you can add it for other FIRST events, like a message sent at 6am to wake up for Champs, Robot Parade at 7:45, etc.

[Stu Bloom]

Originally Posted by JosephM

Easy set up, as always. It sent, and I thought I had my phone on silence, but it rang in the middle of my class. Ooops!

Do you think you can add it for other FIRST events, like a message sent at 6am to wake up for Champs, Robot Parade at 7:45, etc.

WOW ... so now CD is also a wake-up service ???

Brandon, how much are you going to be charging for these new services ??

But wait !! This might be one way to pay for that hardware upgrade that is sure to be needed in the near future ...

[Brandon Martus]

Originally Posted by Stu Bloom

Brandon, how much are you going to be charging for these new services ??

No charge.

But, now that I have all of your cell phone #'s I can call you^** and beg for money, if the need arises!!


^**yes, I'm 100% joking. as the disclaimer says, they will be used for reminders and only reminders.

[petek]

Originally Posted by Brandon Martus

No charge.

But, now that I have all of your cell phone #'s I can call you^** and beg for money, if the need arises!!


^**yes, I'm 100% joking. as the disclaimer says, they will be used for reminders and only reminders.

Just don't let Paris Hilton get ahold of the list!

Add one more chime of thanks for doing all this for us, Brandon!

[Brandon Martus]

Originally Posted by Tom Bottiglieri

I got the verification message 2 seconds after I cliked OK.

Awesome..

But Brandon, I am not able to remove the debug reminders. Will those actually send? If they do it's not a problem, but I think I'm over my text limit. Either way, its only 2 cents.

Tom, those all are shown but you won't get any reminders unless you click the 'request reminder' on the right. When a reminder is going to be sent, the link changes to say 'remove reminder' in bold. I probably need to make that more obvious. Hmm.

[Katie Reynolds]

Originally Posted by Brandon Martus

Tom, those all are shown but you won't get any reminders unless you click the 'request reminder' on the right. When a reminder is going to be sent, the link changes to say 'remove reminder' in bold. I probably need to make that more obvious. Hmm.

After clicking "remove reminder" ... the "remove reminder" link is still there, even after a refresh!!

Save for that, it seems to be working well - I also got the verification message about a second after I hit "OK"!!

EDIT: I should mention that this is for the Web Hug reminder; the "Test Event" reminder is requestable/removeable, as is the "NEMO Meet & Greet" reminder.

[Stu Bloom]

One more concern Brandon ... maybe this is nothing ...
The event time listed for the web hug says 11:00 (in my browser window). I am assuming that is due to time zone differences as it will be 11:00 here in Indianapolis when it is 12:00 in Atlanta. Please confirm that the schedule hasn't changed. Hopefully this idiosyncrasy (yes, I used the spell checker ) will not mess up the timing of the actual reminder messages.

edit: OOPS ... nevermind ...
I see that it says 11:00 AM EST (Eastern Standard Time) which actually IS 12:00 EDT (Eastern Daylight Time) ... sorry ...

[Pat Fairbank]

Hey Brandon,

Don't forget us Canadians! Here are the servers for the 4 major wireless providers up here:

Bell Mobility: txt.bellmobility.ca
Fido: fido.ca
Rogers Wireless: pcs.rogers.com
Telus Mobility: msg.telus.com

Thanks for the reminder system - it's a great idea!

[Brandon Martus]

Originally Posted by Pat Fairbank

Hey Brandon,

Don't forget us Canadians! Here are the servers for the 4 major wireless providers up here:

Bell Mobility: txt.bellmobility.ca
Fido: fido.ca
Rogers Wireless: pcs.rogers.com
Telus Mobility: msg.telus.com

Thanks for the reminder system - it's a great idea!

thats exactly what i needed. thanks.

[Greg Marra]

Originally Posted by Brandon Martus

thats exactly what i needed. thanks.

Assuming other people are savvy enough and have an uncommon provider, would it be acceptable to allow users to enter their whole txt-message address themselves?

You could even disguise it as a "normal e-mail address" field and then the savvy people could just put their cell phone in there.

[Brandon Martus]

Originally Posted by Greg Marra

Assuming other people are savvy enough and have an uncommon provider, would it be acceptable to allow users to enter their whole txt-message address themselves?

You could even disguise it as a "normal e-mail address" field and then the savvy people could just put their cell phone in there.

I'll have to add their provider to the list. I don't want to make it too complex on the back end.

[Lisa Rodriguez]

Originally Posted by Brandon Martus

But, now that I have all of your cell phone #'s I can call you** and beg for money, if the need arises!!

So this IS a huge 47 fundraiser scam!!! I knew it!!!!

But anyway, Brandon you rock!! Thanks for SO much hard work put into this, you do way more than you're ever given credit for!!! Thanks so much!!!

[Kris Verdeyen]

Now all you need to do is set up a 5 minute warning before each match (filtered by team number, of course) when you get the match list. And maybe something I could ping to get the real time standings! Or even.... <Kris is abruptly silenced by Brandon>

Seriously, though - this is great. All I get now is the weather report every morning, and "73 and sunny", while comforting, is getting boring.