A friend of mine just MSN’ed me from New Zealand. He is having some issues with his satellite dish – or more correctly the satellite finder for it. This is a device that you put on the lead and will help you actually get a picture. Amazing little device costing under $100 and reduces the pain significantly of aligning a dish. Well, it would if it worked. I have given him some ideas of what to try, and told him that if he cannot get it working I will just have to come over and try it myself!
Overnight I got some software to test… The SMS code I have been waiting for. By the end of the week I should have an SMS based cellphone tracking system up and running if all goes well. Todays job, apart from dealing with other issues, will be to test the SMS functionality – which will involve grabbing a GSM modem out of stock and making up a few cables for it. I do not expect any issues since it has been tested by the programmer – but I like to make sure that I can get things to work too… and then see what changes I need. I have a few in mind already.