I'm looking for a way for my computer (with internet access) to communicate with my cellphone (through SMS). I am aware that it is possible to sens a SMS by using the service provider's SMS gateway (e.g. [email protected] for Koodo mobile in Canada). Even though it works, I can not answer to the SMS and get the message back through the e-mail (not without an internet connection, that is), and that's what I would like to achieve: communicate with my computer even though I am lacking an internet connection.
Basically I'd like to have some kind of server at home (written in C#) that waits for commands through SMS from me and answers through SMS too.
Is this possible with minimal fees? Ideally I would like it if I could try it out for free at first.
I took a look at Twilio and it seems to be exactly what I'm searching for, but from what I understand, it sends back text messages to an app by sending a POST request. The problem is that I'm not making a webpage, I'm making a stand-alone C# application. Is there a way to recover the request anyway? I must admit that I know close to nothing about requests and how to handle them.
Anyway, I've searched for hours and couldn't come up with anything interesting (except Twilio). I would greatly appreciate any kind of help or clarification.
Thank you for your precious time.
I would suggest that you use the twitter API. If you create an account on twitter for your computer and you register your cellphone with twitter (on your personnal account), you will be able to send tweet that your compute will receive. And you'll receive tweet on your cellphone by sms (if your computer add your name to it).