> Can somebody please give a pointer to a complete neophyte (like me) on >text messaging, what product can I use to send and automatic text message to >a cell phone from within the asterisk dialplan? (the part of the dialplan I >have down, the part of the text message no) > >Thanks >C. Savinovich
1) Email-to-SMS gateways are plentiful, and most carriers have them. Google will give more details, but WikiPedia has good data to start: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMS_gateway 2) Connect a GSM phone to your *NIX system. There are several software packages out there to do this via serial port. Command-line tools then can send SMS messages via the local phone. Put a "System()" call in your dialplan, or (better) use an AGI. 3) Use a service provider that does SMS gatewaying. Much more reliable than the first two methods. One example firm I've used with very easy startup and several APIs including email: Clickatell.com. Others: http://www.160characters.org/pages.php?action=view&pid=7 JT -- John Todd [EMAIL PROTECTED] +1-256-428-6083 Asterisk Open Source Community Director _______________________________________________ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
