Pager data output? Serial or otherwise

[Vitorio Miliano]

Hello,

I'm having a hard time finding current information on pager data
receivers.

I would like to, essentially, embed a pager in another worn device
which responds based on data received. Numeric paging is fine. I
expect to have a microcontroller taking data from the pager (RS232,
TTL or otherwise) and then performing other actions based on that
data.

I've seen traditional pager data receivers, for LED signs and such,
and I really need the portability, small size and battery-powered
operation of a regular body-worn beeper.

Are there low-power, small, pager data receiver boards? URLs and
prices, and whom I'd get service from? I've already looked at Ambient
Devices' datacasting kit, and it's not what I need.

Alternately, is there information out there on getting the data out of
a normal beeper? I'd rather not have to reverse-engineer an LCD
display or something. I'd be picking up a pager of whatever model is
most convenient and/or well-documented from some local pager store
along with service.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Vitorio Miliano

[Lance Boyle]

The old Motorola Advisor pager (Golay, POCSAG) has a 9600 bps RS-232
output port that was meant to drive a small thermal printer. I don't
know of any newer pagers that do that. There must be a vendor that
sells the pagers that drive those big LED signs.

Lance

[ZAQ...@aol.com]

On Aug 27, 7:14 pm, Vitorio Miliano <vito_tnncommpa...@perilith.com>
wrote:

does it need to be flex or pocsag? phillip