How to make the update status button in virtuemart orders admin area automatic??

[hishaqat]

i am currently using virtuemart as a component for my website, i have tied the website to the artio vmsms component which sends the user an sms message on order changes. the problem i am facing is that every time i want to have an sms message sent, i have to login as an admin and change the order status and click the update order status button manually, i want this process to be done automatically when the status of the order is changed in the database table, because it is tied to a hardware component which changes this order status. can anything be done to overcome the problem i am having? i want the system to send an sms when the status is changed in the database automatically, not by having to go in and clicking the update order status button manually?
Thanks in advance.
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[jenkinhill]

Ask Artio if that can change their code or supply a plugin for this function.

[GJC Web Design]

The whole basis of plugins etc is that they use triggers - your "hardware" should be using a status change trigger so that that can trigeer the sms etc etc - your looking at this from the wrong end...
It is the (I assume) DB query from the "hardware" bypassing the system.

If the hardware can't call a trigger then you need maybe a cronjob that runs a script every so often looking for status changes since the last run and then calls the sms plug..
But what ever way you do it it will need coding and dev -> that's time -> that's money