SMS via bluetooth?
Since we were talking about the groupware thing, and Googles SMS appointment reminder, I was wondering about implementing it without using Google. The obvious way is to use viCQ to send messages, but then you are letting possibly confidential details out without knowing it. For example, your wife and children's names (which make many a password), birthdays, business associates, etc. Perhaps you are client number 8? My second choice is the screen scraping sendsms scripts, which I no longer use. I have no idea if they still work. I went to vICQ, but never use it either, I come from an SMS challenged enviornment. :-) To me the best choice is via a Bluetooth phone. Then you send your message directly over your cellular phone network which reduces the number of hands in the process and your SP is legally bound to some confidentiality. My wife has a Nokia cell phone with a bluetooth connection to her PC. Using Nokia PC Suite one can use it to send SMSs. Is there a program to do it from Linux? I understand it is not free, but if you are doing this on a company wide basis, you can negotiate cheaper or free SMS service from your cellular phone company. Geoff. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson, Jerusalem, Israel [EMAIL PROTECTED] N3OWJ/4X1GM = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: SMS via bluetooth?
On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 03:53:04PM +0300, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: To me the best choice is via a Bluetooth phone. Then you send your message directly over your cellular phone network which reduces the number of hands in the process and your SP is legally bound to some confidentiality. My wife has a Nokia cell phone with a bluetooth connection to her PC. Using Nokia PC Suite one can use it to send SMSs. Is there a program to do it from Linux? I did not try to use BlueTooth (in linux or otherwise), but gammu can send SMSs via USB. Does not work on all phones, so if you intend to buy one for this task (e.g. a very cheap one, always connected to your SMS server), first check if it works. It works for me (tm) with nokia 3100 and a cheap usb cable called KQ-U8A (with a prolific chipset/driver). Note that Nokia's official cable does not work (last time I checked). -- Didi = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: SMS via bluetooth?
Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: Since we were talking about the groupware thing, and Googles SMS appointment reminder, I was wondering about implementing it without using Google. The obvious way is to use viCQ to send messages, but then you are letting possibly confidential details out without knowing it. For example, your wife and children's names (which make many a password), birthdays, business associates, etc. Perhaps you are client number 8? My second choice is the screen scraping sendsms scripts, which I no longer use. I have no idea if they still work. I went to vICQ, but never use it either, I come from an SMS challenged enviornment. :-) To me the best choice is via a Bluetooth phone. Then you send your message directly over your cellular phone network which reduces the number of hands in the process and your SP is legally bound to some confidentiality. My wife has a Nokia cell phone with a bluetooth connection to her PC. Using Nokia PC Suite one can use it to send SMSs. Is there a program to do it from Linux? I understand it is not free, but if you are doing this on a company wide basis, you can negotiate cheaper or free SMS service from your cellular phone company. Geoff. There's Wammu [1], which is the wxWidgets frontend (one of several) to Gammu [2]. I use it to backup the phone via bluetooth. Tested sending SMS with Wammu via bluetooth, English worked, Hebrew sent as (could be problem with the receiving phone). Gammu has bindings for python and ruby. [1] http://wammu.eu/ [2] http://www.gammu.org/ [3] http://www.gammu.org/wiki/index.php?title=Gammu:Main_Page#Third_party_-_bindings Cheers -- Meir Kriheli = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: SMS via bluetooth?
On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 3:53 PM, Geoffrey S. Mendelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To me the best choice is via a Bluetooth phone. Then you send your message directly over your cellular phone network which reduces the number of hands in the process and your SP is legally bound to some confidentiality. My wife has a Nokia cell phone with a bluetooth connection to her PC. Using Nokia PC Suite one can use it to send SMSs. Is there a program to do it from Linux? With GSM phones, you send SMSs by issuing certain special AT commands over the phone's serial (modem) interface. With Bluetooth, you get a serial port device (ttyS... or something) and you use it just as you would use a phone connected thru a serial cable (e.g. with gnokii or by issuing the AT commands directly).
