[asterisk-users] Send cell phone #VM waiting, just like cell carrier
We have a number of clients who have replaced their cell carrier voicemail with Asterisk (call forward no answer to * box). One feature they miss is that the cell carriers send the phone a message showing # voicemails waiting. Can Asterisk do the same somehow? MD ___ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- AstriCon 2008 - September 22 - 25 Phoenix, Arizona Register Now: http://www.astricon.net asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [asterisk-users] Send cell phone #VM waiting, just like cell carrier
On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 11:23 AM, OCG Technical Support [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We have a number of clients who have replaced their cell carrier voicemail with Asterisk (call forward no answer to * box). One feature they miss is that the cell carriers send the phone a message showing # voicemails waiting. Can Asterisk do the same somehow? MD You could easily send them an SMS telling them they have X number of new messages and X number of saved messages. Thanks, Steve Totaro ___ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- AstriCon 2008 - September 22 - 25 Phoenix, Arizona Register Now: http://www.astricon.net asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [asterisk-users] Send cell phone #VM waiting, just like cell carrier
Well, I realize that there must be some proprietary protocol between the carrier and the phone, since they have a dedicate spot on the cell screen for # VM waiting... As for an SMS message, is there a module/app which allows easy SMS messaging? (I looked a couple of years ago but only found commercial modules) MD -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steve Totaro Sent: June 22, 2008 11:28 AM To: Asterisk Users List Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Send cell phone #VM waiting, just like cell carrier On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 11:23 AM, OCG Technical Support [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We have a number of clients who have replaced their cell carrier voicemail with Asterisk (call forward no answer to * box). One feature they miss is that the cell carriers send the phone a message showing # voicemails waiting. Can Asterisk do the same somehow? MD You could easily send them an SMS telling them they have X number of new messages and X number of saved messages. Thanks, Steve Totaro ___ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- AstriCon 2008 - September 22 - 25 Phoenix, Arizona Register Now: http://www.astricon.net asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users ___ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- AstriCon 2008 - September 22 - 25 Phoenix, Arizona Register Now: http://www.astricon.net asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [asterisk-users] Send cell phone #VM waiting, just like cell carrier
I just send an email with the voicemail message details. Cool part about this is the attachment can be downloaded and played on the phone via windows media player. Cheers, Dean -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steve Totaro Sent: Sunday, 22 June 2008 11:28 AM To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Send cell phone #VM waiting,just like cell carrier On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 11:23 AM, OCG Technical Support [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We have a number of clients who have replaced their cell carrier voicemail with Asterisk (call forward no answer to * box). One feature they miss is that the cell carriers send the phone a message showing # voicemails waiting. Can Asterisk do the same somehow? MD You could easily send them an SMS telling them they have X number of new messages and X number of saved messages. Thanks, Steve Totaro ___ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- AstriCon 2008 - September 22 - 25 Phoenix, Arizona Register Now: http://www.astricon.net asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users ___ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- AstriCon 2008 - September 22 - 25 Phoenix, Arizona Register Now: http://www.astricon.net asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [asterisk-users] Send cell phone #VM waiting, just like cell carrier
We already do thatbut: If users turn their phone on after being out of range/server/power off, the carrier sends a VM notification. Also, not all phones have POP client capabilities... -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dean Collins Sent: June 22, 2008 11:43 AM To: Asterisk Users List Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Send cell phone #VM waiting, just like cell carrier I just send an email with the voicemail message details. Cool part about this is the attachment can be downloaded and played on the phone via windows media player. Cheers, Dean -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steve Totaro Sent: Sunday, 22 June 2008 11:28 AM To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Send cell phone #VM waiting,just like cell carrier On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 11:23 AM, OCG Technical Support [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We have a number of clients who have replaced their cell carrier voicemail with Asterisk (call forward no answer to * box). One feature they miss is that the cell carriers send the phone a message showing # voicemails waiting. Can Asterisk do the same somehow? MD You could easily send them an SMS telling them they have X number of new messages and X number of saved messages. Thanks, Steve Totaro ___ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- AstriCon 2008 - September 22 - 25 Phoenix, Arizona Register Now: http://www.astricon.net asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users ___ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- AstriCon 2008 - September 22 - 25 Phoenix, Arizona Register Now: http://www.astricon.net asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users ___ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- AstriCon 2008 - September 22 - 25 Phoenix, Arizona Register Now: http://www.astricon.net asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [asterisk-users] Send cell phone #VM waiting, just like cell carrier
OCG Technical Support wrote: We already do thatbut: If users turn their phone on after being out of range/server/power off, the carrier sends a VM notification. Also, not all phones have POP client capabilities... -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dean Collins Sent: June 22, 2008 11:43 AM To: Asterisk Users List Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Send cell phone #VM waiting, just like cell carrier I just send an email with the voicemail message details. Cool part about this is the attachment can be downloaded and played on the phone via windows media player. Cheers, Dean -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steve Totaro Sent: Sunday, 22 June 2008 11:28 AM To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Send cell phone #VM waiting,just like cell carrier On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 11:23 AM, OCG Technical Support [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We have a number of clients who have replaced their cell carrier voicemail with Asterisk (call forward no answer to * box). One feature they miss is that the cell carriers send the phone a message showing # voicemails waiting. Can Asterisk do the same somehow? MD You could easily send them an SMS telling them they have X number of new messages and X number of saved messages. Thanks, Steve Totaro ___ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- AstriCon 2008 - September 22 - 25 Phoenix, Arizona Register Now: http://www.astricon.net asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users ___ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- AstriCon 2008 - September 22 - 25 Phoenix, Arizona Register Now: http://www.astricon.net asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users ___ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- AstriCon 2008 - September 22 - 25 Phoenix, Arizona Register Now: http://www.astricon.net asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users Quick note, almost every cell phone carrier has an email to SMS gateway that you can use to send their customers SMS via email -- Sherwood McGowan VoIP / Telecom Solutions [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- AstriCon 2008 - September 22 - 25 Phoenix, Arizona Register Now: http://www.astricon.net asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [asterisk-users] Send cell phone #VM waiting, just like cell carrier
On June 22, 2008 11:32:56 am OCG Technical Support wrote: Well, I realize that there must be some proprietary protocol between the carrier and the phone, since they have a dedicate spot on the cell screen for # VM waiting... As for an SMS message, is there a module/app which allows easy SMS messaging? (I looked a couple of years ago but only found commercial modules) Don't quote me on this, but I think that the standard voicemail notifications that cell phones recieve are just a regular SMS message but in some kind of special format that the phone recognizes and does not display as a regular text message. I had an unlocked Moto razr at one point that didn't come from my cell provider, at one point while I had it the VM notifications didn;t really work... everytime i got a VM I'd get a SMS message with special characters in the message body. I sort of chalked it up to not using the branded firmware that my provider would have put on my phone if the phone had come from them. At any rate, if I'm right, and you can find some information on that protocol, it might turn out to be alot easier than you think. and btw - Asterisk ships with app_sms but depending on your country it may not really be what you are looking for. I could be very very wrong here, but I don't believe Asterisk has a great implementation for text messaging in North America. This is probably because every cell carrier seems to do it just a little bit differently. Depending on your needs however, most cell carriers offer email-to-SMS gateways so you can just send an email to yourcellnumber@yourcellcarrier.com kind of thing... if you need it to work from a machine with no Internet access however, then you might need to do something like use a dialup modem to dial into your cell carriers TAP number (provided they offer one and you can either explain to the tier 1 support guy what you are looking for, or you can find the number on the internet). However again, I don;t believe Asterisk has any interface for TAP, but in theory you could use something like the sendpage daemon to handle the TAP stuff and then have Asterisk hand off the text messages to sendpage using a simple bash script and the System() application... if Asterisk had an implementation for SNPP then you could send your messages to sendpage that way - also *some* cell providers even offer SNPP gateways over the internet, but again good luck explaining to the tech what you want. I've actually been toying with the idea of creating a res_snpp or something for this purpose since I already use sendpage for our server monitoring/alerting system to page me on my cell via dialup TAP (so my monitoring server can still page me in the event of an internet outage). Anyhow, sorry that message got a bit lengthy pretty fast! -- Matt Watson http://www.mattgwatson.ca ___ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- AstriCon 2008 - September 22 - 25 Phoenix, Arizona Register Now: http://www.astricon.net asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [asterisk-users] Send cell phone #VM waiting, just like cell carrier
Matt Watson wrote: On June 22, 2008 11:32:56 am OCG Technical Support wrote: Well, I realize that there must be some proprietary protocol between the carrier and the phone, since they have a dedicate spot on the cell screen for # VM waiting... As for an SMS message, is there a module/app which allows easy SMS messaging? (I looked a couple of years ago but only found commercial modules) Don't quote me on this, but I think that the standard voicemail notifications that cell phones recieve are just a regular SMS message but in some kind of special format that the phone recognizes and does not display as a regular text message. I had an unlocked Moto razr at one point that didn't come from my cell provider, at one point while I had it the VM notifications didn;t really work... everytime i got a VM I'd get a SMS message with special characters in the message body. I sort of chalked it up to not using the branded firmware that my provider would have put on my phone if the phone had come from them. At any rate, if I'm right, and you can find some information on that protocol, it might turn out to be alot easier than you think. and btw - Asterisk ships with app_sms but depending on your country it may not really be what you are looking for. I could be very very wrong here, but I don't believe Asterisk has a great implementation for text messaging in North America. This is probably because every cell carrier seems to do it just a little bit differently. Depending on your needs however, most cell carriers offer email-to-SMS gateways so you can just send an email to yourcellnumber@yourcellcarrier.com kind of thing... if you need it to work from a machine with no Internet access however, then you might need to do something like use a dialup modem to dial into your cell carriers TAP number (provided they offer one and you can either explain to the tier 1 support guy what you are looking for, or you can find the number on the internet). However again, I don;t believe Asterisk has any interface for TAP, but in theory you could use something like the sendpage daemon to handle the TAP stuff and then have Asterisk hand off the text messages to sendpage using a simple bash script and the System() application... if Asterisk had an implementation for SNPP then you could send your messages to sendpage that way - also *some* cell providers even offer SNPP gateways over the internet, but again good luck explaining to the tech what you want. I've actually been toying with the idea of creating a res_snpp or something for this purpose since I already use sendpage for our server monitoring/alerting system to page me on my cell via dialup TAP (so my monitoring server can still page me in the event of an internet outage). Anyhow, sorry that message got a bit lengthy pretty fast! Check out http://www.ihub.com which have lots of information regarding SMS messages, you can also use their software as a trial for 60 days to see it in action. //Peter ___ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- AstriCon 2008 - September 22 - 25 Phoenix, Arizona Register Now: http://www.astricon.net asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
