Text Message (SMS) to screen

[sleepytom]

manually is really the only professional way of doing this, all the automated systems are unreliable and canot moderate properly. (at best they can filter out messages which contain words from a banned list - this will not stop the linguistically creative from being offensive!!) The biggest public screen systems are manually controlled. Eg this example from Nokia - they just typed messages into the system, it's quicker, easier, more reliable and cheaper to do it this way, even if your Nokia who know a thing or two about text messaging!

A huge Ovi maps interactive signpost in London - YouTube

A huge Ovi maps interactive signpost in London - YouTube

[MrJustin]

Last year i made a system for doing this in QC. But its not very straightforward to set up. you will need a MySQL database,cocoa ultra and a few other thing to set up first, including a phone compatible with cocoa ultra.

The system queues up incoming messages which need to be approved or denied manually (Y/N keyboard shortcut.)

The approved messages are then displayed at random with every 4th display reminding people of the number to text etc. Any message which has just been approved for display jumps to the front of this queue to make sure it doesn't take ages for it to be seen.



Top right you can see the content of the current message waiting to be approved, and buttons to approve or deny it.

[MrJustin]

i used this tutorial to get me started after that it was a case of building the moderation system in QC...


http://originalhamsters.com/blog/200...artz-composer/

[alfaleader]

I'm working on something similar, but with the moderation system in a website working on php.

The phone uploads each sms to database 1, there's a simple php program to check and if the message is good it gets the message to database 2.

Then quartz composer gets the messages through a xml file from database 2 and shows it.

[sleepytom]

you don't need 2 DB - just have an approved field which is set when the data is approved. Then it's just a simple mysql select to get the approved data into quartz.

good luck with any form of auto moderation. It isn't possible for a computer to moderate, for example the following phrases would all most likely be approved and displayed on your screen.

"The sub-standard and lazy VeeJay is approving abusive messages"

"This music doesn't inspire me"

"this event has left me feeling suicidal"

"the promoters are crack heads who must have faulty cochlear implants if they think this is a good dj"

Obviously a human moderator would not approve any of these messages but your computer system will.

[stickygreen]

just for the record, I do not expect an automated system. When I put this request out there, I fully expected to have an operator working the system, it's human to human interaction after all..

anyway I've got something working now, it's a bit of home made, and a bit of FFGL plugin... though i really do need to understand FugWraperGL a bit better to get it just the way i think it should be.