[GreenKeys] text messaging to a model 20 teletype

[Javier Albinarrate (LU8AJA-TTY)]

Hi Joe,

    This is Javier, the one who made HM3.
    First of all, I have a new release ready to go out as soon as I come 
back from vacations in about 10 days. This one solves a number of problems, 
so it would be better to kick off from this new version.
    Second, from what I understand you basically want to use 2 serial ports, 
one for the TTY another for the Cell phone, am I wrong?
    This cannot be done out of the box right now, because each HM supports 
only one serial port... however... you can run two HMs (even on the same 
machine), pipe them using telnet, and in that way you would indeed be able 
to do what you say.... here comes the fact that some of the problems I have 
solved in this last release I have in hand, were related precisely to the 
telnet communication... so we end up again in, "you need the newer version" 
:)

    Finally.... one of the next steps I intended to do with HM was to 
support multiple serial ports.. with that you would solve everything at 
once.

    I will email again to you once I am back, and I can help you setup 
things over MSN or any other chat, much easier than by emails.

    Regards!
Javier Albinarrate



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Joe Giliberti" <starbase89 at gmail.com>
To: <greenkeys at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Thursday, December 30, 2010 7:33 PM
Subject: [GreenKeys] text messaging to a model 20 teletype


> Hello Everyone,
>
> My name is Joe Giliberti. I work/volunteer at the not-for-profit InfoAge
> Science & History Learning Center and Museum, located in Wall Township, 
> NJ,
> which is located on the site of a former Marconi Transatlantic Receiving
> Station as well as the US Army Camp Evans Signal Laboratories. Due to 
> those
> associations, we try to have some exhibits related to our heritage.
> We are working on an exhibit dedicated to World War II communications. We
> currently have a Western Electric Model 20 teletype hooked up to an 
> internet
> connected computer running HeavyMetal 3. As it stands, we can pull in AP
> feeds and email to be printed on the tty. We also have a device that acts 
> as
> a cell phone to receive cell calls and texts, which has an RS232 Serial 
> port
> for communication. The goal of this is for visiting kids and adults alike 
> to
> be able to send a text message to a special number, and have that message
> print out to the teletype. The only stumbling point right now is getting
> HeavyMetal to talk to the cell phone box through the serial report. Can
> anyone offer insight? I will get more info on the box itself later on.
>
> Thank you
> Joe Giliberti
>
>
> http://www.infoage.org
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