How To Make An Incoming Call On My Mobile Trigger An Action On My Pc

I have a specific scenario in mind, but I will ask this generally: Is there a way to make my mobile phone trigger an action on my computer? I am thinking that with a smart phone it

Solution 1:

The way your sat-nav interfaces with your phone is by creating a bluetooth serial connection with your phone's Dial-Up modem. You can see which COM port that corresponds to in your Control Panel's Bluetooth options.

Once connected, regular AT commands can be sent and received with the handset -- for Nokias these are documented (along with a full guide to the process) here.

You should wait for the "RING" notification of an incoming call, then immediately issue the command "AT+CLCC" (List Current Calls). On my N78 this results in the following

+CLCC: 1,1,4,0,0,"07xxxxxxxxx",129

This should be all the information you require to trigger any desired action on the PC.

Edit: that particular link does not actually mention AT+CLCC for some reason. For a full set of commands (including those to query the phone book, and even view incoming SMSs on some handsets) try this document.

Solution 2:

The N82 runs Symbian, so you could develop an application that used the CTelephony (C++) class to detect the phone status and do whatever you want with it. You have an example here

http://www.symbian.com/developer/techlib/v9.1docs/doc_source/guide/Telephony-subsystem-guide/N1013A/answer.html

Solution 3:

I would say that this can be done for that phone, but in C++. There are Symbian applications for blocking incoming calls, which means that you will have access on caller number. And bluetooth access should not be a problem, because this phone has access to it even in J2ME.

/JaanusSiim

Solution 4:

'depends'

you'd need to check the SDK for the phones you're targetting - but Symbian and certainly WindowsCE phones can do that (NFI about the iPhone).

Calling into Dynamics would be easy from a webservice, you could expose that either internally or externally and thus use either WiFi in the area (be it your own corporate network, or a hotspot) or data over the mobile phone network.

From days working in Microsoft CRM (hellish days of v 1.*) there were mods to do what you talk about using either Skype or regular landline phones then, I'm sure writing stuff for it has improved since when it was craptacular.

Solution 5:

I know you certainly can't do this on an iphone.

Regarding a nokia n82, I'm not sure if symbian (that's what they use isn't it?) provides developer hooks for things like phone calls, but I wouldn't be at all surprised if it didn't. Phone calls fall in the category of "we really really don't want third parties to screw this up, so it's off limits"