Looking for recommendations: sending SMSs from linux
Hi all, I am looking for recommendations for hardware to send SMSs from a linux server and connected through its USB port. It's important that it'll be stable and robust. I'd also like it to: 1. be easy to buy in Israel and get warranty/support 2. have good support in both the kernel and relevant user-mode tools 3. be able to manage from remote, especially reboot if it's stuck 4. be fast 5. not be expensive Relevant options I thought about: * a cellular modem plus gammu * a normal cellular phone and gammu * an android cellular phone and adb and/or some relevant application I currently have a very old Nokia 3100 and a USB-serial converter. Some notes as to how does it pass my criteria above, and related stuff: 1. The phone was then easy to buy, the converter a bit less so - the official Nokia CA-42 did not work, but this nameless clone did. 2. The converter did not have very good support in old kernels but is ok with recent ones. gammu works well. 3. The nokia is not easily managable from remote. In certain occasions I had to go there and reboot and/or disconnect/reconnect it. If I connect it without a battery and to a remote power device, I can reboot it, but it does not come up without pressing its on button. I did not check how do other phones do in this regard. Rebooting the entire server is an option, but I'd rather not if possible. 4. gammu is slow - sending an SMS takes around 10 seconds. I also tried gammu with the modem built into a recent Thinkpad (which gammu identifies as 'F5521gw') and it also took around 9 seconds. I have a feeling that most of this time is gammu sleeping to be on the safe side, but did not look at the source or try to make it sleep less. 5. prices are not very relevant to current hardware, but it would be nice if it didn't cost more than what they did then. E.g. buying the newest/strongest android phone is certainly not preferable, but a cheap ~500 NIS one might do better than the ceapest ~200 NIS modem if people have better experience with it. Opinions, ideas, and especially recommendations based on real experience are very welcome. Thanks, -- Didi ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: Looking for recommendations: sending SMSs from linux
Yedidyah Bar-David wrote: Hi all, I am looking for recommendations for hardware to send SMSs from a linux server and connected through its USB port. It's important that it'll be stable and robust. I'd also like it to: 1. be easy to buy in Israel and get warranty/support 2. have good support in both the kernel and relevant user-mode tools 3. be able to manage from remote, especially reboot if it's stuck 4. be fast 5. not be expensive I use a Hauwei (or is it Huawei?) dongle. The asterisk chan_dongle driver allows you to make and receive calls and send and receive SMSs. I was able to find one for sale in Haifa using ZAP, after someone who is not on this list pointed me to,a I bought one from an eBay vendor selling them. He sells them for under $50 including registered mail from Hungary, and they take less than 2 weeks to get here. I paid about 300 NIS including postage for the one I bought here. It was the only one that store had at that time. Since the dongle is managed by asterisk, you can send an SMS using all of the asterisk functions, or by the shell command asterisk -rx dongle sms dongle name number message. You can also query its status, the status of the connection, and load and unload the module with asterisk commands. Only slightly related, I found that my unlimited SMS plan only covers SMSs to Israeli phones. It's about 1/2 a shequel to SMS overseas, even to numbers that include unlimited calls. Geoff. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson, N3OWJ/4X1GM/KBUH7245/KBUW5379 Owning a smartphone: Technology's equivalent to learning to play chopsticks on the piano as a child and thinking you're a musician. (sent to me by a friend) ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: Looking for recommendations: sending SMSs from linux
Thanks for the info. On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 01:38:55PM +0200, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: I use a Hauwei (or is it Huawei?) dongle. The asterisk chan_dongle driver allows you to make and receive calls and send and receive SMSs. I was able to find one for sale in Haifa using ZAP, after someone who is not on this list pointed me to,a I bought one from an eBay vendor selling them. He sells them for under $50 including registered mail from Hungary, and they take less than 2 weeks to get here. I paid about 300 NIS including postage for the one I bought here. It was the only one that store had at that time. Since the dongle is managed by asterisk, you can send an SMS using all of the asterisk functions, or by the shell command asterisk -rx dongle sms dongle name number message. You can also query its status, the status of the connection, and load and unload the module with asterisk commands. How long does it take to send 1 message? 3? 10? -- Didi ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: כריכים
On Sun, Oct 28, 2012, Maxim Veksler wrote about Re: כריכים: If sandwiches are promised I'll be as well. Lucky he didn't make that mistake on Facebook! Check out http://forum.phillyd.tv/discussion/5931/facebook-party-gone-wrong A girl wanted to invite her friends to a small party, which she accidentally sent to everybody on facebook resulting on 30,000 (!) people coming to the party, starting riots and ending with 20 people being arrested for vandalism and looting. Hope this doesn't happen at your tuna-less party ;-) -- Nadav Har'El| Monday, Oct 29 2012, 13 Heshvan 5773 n...@math.technion.ac.il |- Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ 13349191 |How long a minute depends on what side of http://nadav.harel.org.il |the bathroom door you're on. ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
