#2 is just morbid.IMSTBHO. #1 is not practical as you cannot alert police fire etc directly by electronic means. A central station is required by law in the US.
#3 sounds promising if you can get a server to read through and parse the messages over APRS-IS and act on what it finds. How would you interface your alarm clock? Machine to Machine communications is a fun field and I bet this hardware would do the translations etc. brian.newhard wrote: > Have you gotten anywhere with Arduino? > > I'm new, so please be kind. > > I'm looking to take OBD-II car diagnostics and transmit them using > packet/aprs to trigger events on an Internet server. Sort of a homebrew > OnStar system. This could do things like (brainstorm): > > 1. alert emergency response to my exact location in the event of high G-forces > > 2. send my mother an SMS/email telling her I loved her upon airbag deployment > > 3. Set my alarm clock 20 minutes earlier when I need to buy a tank of gas in > the morning > > 4. etc. > > I thought that an arduino may be a good device to translate the OBD readings > and push them to the Tracker2, and into a radio in a mobile setting. Does > this sound reasonable? Has this been done yet? (Is this what a Tracker2 > does?) > > Thanks, > > Brian > > > > --- In [email protected], "Christopher Snell" <chris.sn...@...> wrote: > >> On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 11:35 AM, Jason KG4WSV <kg4...@...> wrote: >> >> >>> Nope, but I've kicked around the idea of using an Arduino (same idea >>> 1/3 the price of the Make controller). >>> >> Thanks for the tip. The Arduino is definitely cheaper, smaller (if >> you use the Stamp version) and appears to use less power than the Make >> controller. I'm ordering one now. >> >> The Arduino's programming language is simple and I may be able to do >> everything I need within its environment. I need to implement some >> cutdown logic based on GPS readings and manual triggering over the >> radio via the Tracker2. >> >> Chris >> >> > > > > > ------------------------------------ > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > >
