Comments on: Remote Start using Cell Phone: Part 1

By: Nagi Reddy

Nagi Reddy — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 18:13:47 +0000

Nothing will!

start phone’s number can be set to vibrate to a particular
number which is pump set owner’s one.

By: admin

admin — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 03:37:00 +0000

I just have a regular car charger that I had hard wired to the inside of the accessory port.

By: admin

admin — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 03:36:06 +0000

This will work with any phone that you can tear apart and patch into the vibrate motor. Sky is the limit.

By: admin

admin — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 03:35:31 +0000

Actually the new version I am working (slowly) on should work on any phone with:

- Customizable ring tones.
- Automatic call answering.

Should be pretty cheap if you have a regular cell account (i.e. Spring, At&t…) that you can add-a-line for $10/month.

By: Roger Fresco

Roger Fresco — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 14:42:56 +0000

Is this possible to do with any other cdma phones? I sell page plus and their minutes are good for 4 months instead of the traditional 1 month. I can use almost any verizon phone for page plus. Long term it makes more sense to go with that company as their minimum is $10 for 100 minutes, and that should last the 4 months so you would only have to add $30 per year to do it this way. I am certainly concidering this for my truck. Kudos

By: jig

jig — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 11:34:44 +0000

hey plz. cn u tel me in which other phones this is available….v hve 2 make a project…so cn u plz. guide me for that…reply soon

By: khisanthax

khisanthax — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 02:53:26 +0000

after many long hours of reading and researching I finally got it all figure out and … it works great!!

If anyone is trying to replicate this same idea I’d be happy to explain how I did it as well, although it’s identical to dave’s hack.

I’d give my email but i’m afraid of spam, lol. it does require a lot of patience and some skill with soldering since rushing will only mess things up. In the end I only had three wires to connect, one for the remote start, one for a 12v acc and one for a ground.

There was one thing that I added, I bought a mini usb car charger from ebay and connected it to the car as well because i noticed the battery doesn’t last long and now when the remote start turns on or the car is on for any reason the cell phone gets charged automatically.

By: slater182x

slater182x — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 20:40:37 +0000

Does this work with manual cars? I could really use this with my 97 TDI Jetta. It would sure beat going out in the middle of winter to start the thing and leave it run for 10 minutes while I shiver uncontrollably, and since I leave the defrost on, that would not be a problem either!

Also, about the phone minutes thing. Wouldn’t there be a way to hook it up with google voice or some other free service like that?? Just a thought, don’t really know the requirements/merits of GV.

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