Re: SMS text messages to a data queue?

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message: 1
date: Fri, 27 Jul 2018 07:41:07 -0400
from: Buck Calabro <kc2hiz@xxxxxxxxx>
subject: Re: SMS text messages to a data queue?


On Thu, 26 Jul 2018 at 23:06, Booth Martin <booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Ideas on how to send data, like a an SMS text or the body of an email,
to a data queue? That seems like a reasonable expectation today. Any
pointers or examples?

I think you're asking 'I want to run an RPG program when I get a text message'. One way is to use the Twilio service and link it to Node.js. From Node, you can fire an RPG program. Here is a web page talking about Twilio.
https://www.twilio.com/blog/2016/08/how-to-receive-an-sms-in-node-js-with-twilio-and-hyperdev.html

I did something that needed the reverse (sending a SMS through Twilio) and wrote about it here:
https://archive.midrange.com/opensource/201801/msg00001.html It's a glorious time to be an RPG programmer, and extend RPG to the web like this!

--buck