thimel
Well-known member
60% of people (myself included) don't have smart phones. It seems to me that an enterprising person could provide a very useful service for these people by providing a way to use text messages to communicate with Carwings and hence the Leaf. I'm particularly interested in being able to turn on the climate control of my car from a non-smart cell phone.
All the major pieces are available. It just takes an enterprising person with the right knowledge to integrate them.
There are free or cheap services that can receive an SMS and send an email someplace or execute a script on a web-server.
There are straight forward ways to receive and email and execute a script.
Nissan provides the carwings web-portal which allows us to communicate with our cars.
Presumably a script could be written that takes the account and password provided in the SMS message, logs into the persons Carwings account and does the desired actions by sending the needed request to the Carwings server in just the same way that a user clicking on its web page would.
If the request requires a response (e.g. asking for the present charge status), it could be sent back via SMS.
Anyone interested in doing this and providing it as a cheap or free service to the rest of us?
All the major pieces are available. It just takes an enterprising person with the right knowledge to integrate them.
There are free or cheap services that can receive an SMS and send an email someplace or execute a script on a web-server.
There are straight forward ways to receive and email and execute a script.
Nissan provides the carwings web-portal which allows us to communicate with our cars.
Presumably a script could be written that takes the account and password provided in the SMS message, logs into the persons Carwings account and does the desired actions by sending the needed request to the Carwings server in just the same way that a user clicking on its web page would.
If the request requires a response (e.g. asking for the present charge status), it could be sent back via SMS.
Anyone interested in doing this and providing it as a cheap or free service to the rest of us?