Omega 2+ to iOS Messages App
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I was just wondering if anyone knows how to connect an Omega 2+ to the iOS Messages app on iPhone. I couldn't find anything when I googled, and I was just wondering if I could get any help with this.
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@Ryan-Ramcharran I don't have an iPhone, but are there things like SMS messages shown? You could use a standard GSM modem to send an SMS your number of choice. There is an Omega2 Cellular Expansion (https://onion.io/2bt-using-hologram-expansion/).
There are also free online SMS services (with budgets), so sending an SMS is a few lines of python code and does not require a GSM modem but just an internet conenction. https://www.twilio.com/docs/sms/send-messages
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@Maximilian-Gerhardt I was wondering if you could make it so that if you got an SMS on really any phone, it could show on the Omega 2+ OLED Screen. (Forgot to mention that) Maybe VIA Bluetooth?
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@Ryan-Ramcharran For that you would have to write an app for the iPhone which reads out the received messages and exfiltrates them (kind of like malware, lol). The security environment on iPhones does not allow this: https://forums.developer.apple.com/thread/93860 , https://forums.developer.apple.com/thread/86268 as this is a quite extreme security risk (malware).
Would certainly be possible with a rooted Android phone but that's out-of-scope.
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@Maximilian-Gerhardt Well what if I made a simplified app of that sort and port it to my iPhone considering it is a developer iPhone and I just don't release it to public (app store) but keep it local on my iPhone.
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Whether you release the app or not, you have the fundamental problem that you cannot read out SMS / be notified of incoming SMS in a non-hacked way on iOS systems.