This may be of absolutely no value to anyone other than me, but who knows...
There have been many times when I've been away from any internet connection and wanted to know today's tide, or for a future date. Sue is out kayaking with her sister today and I'm at home working (or at least that was the plan). I actually spent some hours developing a web application that will send the tide information to my cell phone. It should work with any cell phone that can receive text messages.
Here's what you do:
Using your cell phone, send a text message to tidestats@ssih.com
In the body of the message include ONLY the date that you're interested in. DAY ONLY. For example, if you want the tide for July 25, the body of the message should be nothing but:
25
If you'd like a day next month, add a '1' after the day, with a space between the two numbers like this:
18 1
(That would return info for August 18.)
It <i>should</i> send it to you. If anyone tries this, let me know. Sue has our cell phone with her, so I can't test it.
Tides sent to your cell phone
Moderator: Chip
Will it work if I send an email to the address?
It responded but no info, just this:
Tides for July :
High: and
Low: and
It responded but no info, just this:
Tides for July :
High: and
Low: and
Last edited by Chip on Thu Jul 21, 2005 3:26 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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