Send2Chumby
by develephant (community developer)popularity rank: 10
description: Send a message to a chumby device from your web browser. Visit the Send2Chumby URL shown in the widget to send a text based message. Tap the screen to cycle through the last 10 messages sent to your chumby. NOTE: This widget will NOT auto refresh. You must include at least one other widget in the channel, or two Send2Chumby widgets back to back.
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Comments
homerjay
– July 08 2015
Looks like the send2chumby domain has expired
wrappe
– October 25 2014
I just revived using this app for first time since Chumby service is back. It is working just fine again. This is used to send brief messages to elderly parents just let them know are thinking of them. Thanks so much for send2chumby!
develephant
– October 31 2012
It sounds like your widget is outdated. Try refreshing the your channel. The updated url is shown in widget. The chumtopia url is no longer valid.
MacMike99
– October 31 2012
Is this app now defunct? The URL doesn't work and when I try to do a whois lookup on chumtopia.com it shows as no longer being registered. Can anyone shed any light on this?
Davethetemp
– July 13 2012
Thanks Develephant! This is the most important app on my Chumby.
develephant
– June 28 2012
The sending URL has been updated. Please see your widget for the new one. Best, develephant.
rmchuar
– June 10 2012
The URL, which is necessary to send texts to a Chumby seems to be down. Can anyone help? Tanks very much! Send2Chumby is a great solution!!
GregorDV
– February 24 2012
This is a very nice app, and it's fun to send messages to the family from work. One thing I've noticed is that it HTML-encodes special characters during submittal, but doesn't decode them before they hit the screen. If I send: I'm happy to see you it comes up on Chumby as I'm happy to see you
chumzter
– September 06 2011
@[email protected] - I just verified that this app is working on my dash. Be sure that you have the app at least cycle once to get refreshed. If you are still having issues with this please come see us in support (http://www.chumby.com/pages/help_support). -chumby support
[email protected]
– September 05 2011
I cannot get this app to work with the Sony Dash. It loads on the device and gives me a URL, but nothing I enter at that URL appears on the Dash.
chumzter
– July 27 2011
@ALL - app is working properly now. Thank you develephant for the quick resolution! -chumby support
develephant
– July 27 2011
Send2Chumby is working properly again. @jenjude: You can also use http://www.chumby.com/guide/widget/Text.simple which would allow you to drop the message in on the spot. -dev
chumzter
– July 27 2011
@jenjude - you get the customer URL from the chumby device itself. So in able to suprise your wife, you would need to be able to view the app on your wife's chumby to write down the URL. Then whenever you want to send a message to her chumby just use the URL in any web browser. UPDATE - There is currently an issue with this app. We will be getting in touch with the developer to get this resolved quickly. -chumby support
jenjude
– July 26 2011
I'm confused. If I want to send a message to my chumby at home when I'm work, to send my wife a "hello Honey" note, why doesn't it give me the Send2Chumby URL from which to send the message when I'm adding the app? I'm at work, the chumby is on and running apps at home, I wanted to add the app from work and surprise her. But I can't find the URL...
chumzter
– July 18 2011
@marchaang - we can assist you with deactivating the device for you. When you get a chance come see us in support (http://www.chumby.com/pages/help_support). -chumby support
marchaang
– July 17 2011
I bot a secondhand chumby , how do i reset everything in there and reg it under me. Still reg under the previuos user??
develephant
– July 03 2011
Thank you for the kind comments. They really help gauge whether there is an interest in widgets or not. -dev
sidecars
– July 03 2011
Really a great widget. Thanks Develephant!
fidodog
– June 30 2011
I love this. My parents are able to send me fun/positive messages everyday.
develephant
– June 03 2011
@grantb4 - I will provide that option as well. The URL provides more flexibility by allowing outside parties to message a chumby whom you may not want to have access to your entire chumby.com account.
grantb4
– June 03 2011
I like it but it would be better if I could customize the string from the Chumby.com dashboard.
develephant
– June 03 2011
Well it's based on the chumby user id, but 2 different chumbies under my same "user" account are showing different messages. So I guess you would need to test first on your specific device(s). -dev
chumzter
– June 03 2011
Great work, keep it up. We have had customers asking for something like this. Quick question is the URL provided from the app, device or chumby.com account specific? -chumby support
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