Re: Cell phone to send SMSs?
Hi, On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 11:12 PM, geoffrey mendelson geoffreymendel...@gmail.com wrote: Does anyone know the cheapest (or just a cheap one) GSM phone with a USB interface that is supported by a Linux program to send SMSs? In other words, I want to write a program to monitor various conditions and then send me an SMS if they out of the proper range. I'm looking to spend as little money as possible. I was thinking of a cheap GSM phone with a USB interface connected to a Linux system. I no longer have a modem for pager emulation, and since one of the conditions is a down internet connection, I don't want to use the internet to do it (if I could). The question is which phone and what software drives it? I want the SMSs to arrive at an Orange phone, but I have both Cell-Com and Orange SIMs, so if one is supported and not the other, it's fine with me if they will send SMSs to each other. I also have a ZTE MF637 modem, I know Linux supports it for dial-up, does it support it for SMSs? We've used for a project that sends/receives SMS simple Sony Ericsson phones. You could go over the supported db for gammu/wammu and find the ones you like: http://wammu.eu/phones/ Of course sms should be one of the supported features ;-) Also see Guy Sheffer's blog post (used a cheep fake Nokia): http://guysoft.wordpress.com/2011/03/27/smsgate/ PS We had problems with gammu-smsd packaged in Debian Lenny - so if you're using Debian, go with Squeeze. Cheers -- Meir ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: Cell phone to send SMSs?
On May 17, 2011, at 11:31 PM, Meir Kriheli wrote: We've used for a project that sends/receives SMS simple Sony Ericsson phones. You could go over the supported db for gammu/wammu and find the ones you like: Thanks, that's what I was looking for. http://wammu.eu/phones/ Of course sms should be one of the supported features ;-) Also see Guy Sheffer's blog post (used a cheep fake Nokia): http://guysoft.wordpress.com/2011/03/27/smsgate/ That's what got me interested. Unfortunately, Guy got his phone in India. :-) Thanks, Geoff. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson, N3OWJ/4X1GM Occam's Razor does not apply to electronics. If something won't turn on, it's not likely to be the power switch. ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: Cell phone to send SMSs?
Hey, On Tue, 2011-05-17 at 23:40 +0300, geoffrey mendelson wrote: On May 17, 2011, at 11:31 PM, Meir Kriheli wrote: We've used for a project that sends/receives SMS simple Sony Ericsson phones. You could go over the supported db for gammu/wammu and find the ones you like: Thanks, that's what I was looking for. http://wammu.eu/phones/ Of course sms should be one of the supported features ;-) Also see Guy Sheffer's blog post (used a cheep fake Nokia): http://guysoft.wordpress.com/2011/03/27/smsgate/ That's what got me interested. Unfortunately, Guy got his phone in India. :-) Commenters on ynet said this phone can be bought on dealextreme. Though I won't recommend it because you need to set it to 'com port' each time you plug it in to a PC (or restart it). I think your cheapest solution around here would be to buy a second hand phone that can act as an AT modem. Thanks, Geoff. Guy Sheffer signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
