Hi, About (1) No, this cannot be done with modems. You should use bulk operators for this (smslib supports clickatell and bulksms).
About (2) Well, MOXA is a well established and known company. I have no experience with these modems, but I guess they would be ok. Bit pricey though... :o On Jan 29, 12:31 am, Pradeepm <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks Thanasis. This is helpful. > > And for the version 3.4 testing, I will let you know, if I can or not. > As of now, I did a demo set up and my manager is happy about it and > his superior as well. But they need to take a decision in going > forward with this. > > Thanasis, I have some more questions. > > 1. When I try to send a message, it gets delivered fine and the from > address of the sms is my mobile no. Is there a way to set an alias for > my number. ie., it has to say from 'Pradeep' instead of my number. I > know this has to do something with short codes on service provider > end, but can we do something? > > 2. Can you provide with some best know GSM Modems in the industry now? > I was looking around and I got the below. Is this a good > one?http://www.neteon.net/Products/125-134-214-447/Vendors-MOXA-Wireless-... > > Thanks > Pradeep > > On Jan 28, 2:27 am, Thanasis <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > Answers follow: > > > On Jan 28, 7:06 am, Pradeepm <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > I am glad to seek you API for my application at office. This is so > > > wonderful that I can up with a demo set up and showed it to my higher > > > authorities. There are quite happy about it, but their minds are > > > intrigued with some questions.. > > > > 1. Lets say, if a modem goes down by any chance, is there any high > > > availability provided in SMSLib automatically taking failover switch > > > to the second modem set up?? Are the multiple gateways in the > > > SMSServer.conf is the away to achieve this? And is there any way/ > > > method call to know that a particular gateway/modem is down with like > > > a ping in UNIX, other waiting till trying to send a message? > > > The best thing to do is to have more than one modems setup and > > running. This way, if one modem goes down traffic will be forwarded to > > the other(s). Multiple gateways *is* the way to achieve it. > > Programmatically, you can be notified when a modem is down if you > > implement the gateway callback functions. Alternatively, you can jump > > directly to v3.4 (currently under development) which also has an > > embedded web server which you can use to quickly preview the smsserver > > status. This version is still under development, although it seems > > stable. Do you want to be the first tester??? > > > > 2. How easy is this to set up on a linux environment? I worked on > > > windows 32bit, with GSM phone and a data cable. Its straight forward > > > in figuring out the comm ports in connection. Is there the same level > > > of easiness to set up in linux? > > > Very easy. You just use RxTx (instead of JavaComm). There are some > > issues with USB connections, but most of the times these work fine as > > well. > > > > 3. In the database interface, can't I use the custom outbound table, > > > with having total different set of columns? > > > You *must* use the specified fields as a minimum. Extra fields can be > > added according to your needs. Unless you want to modify SMSServer... > > > > 4. Can I have some statistics on who are using the API at present in > > > production and their max range of sms/min? > > > I look forward to deliver a minimum of 10msgs/min and top 40msgs/min. > > > Will this be possible? Lets say with multiple server set up etc? > > > A gsm modem can send about 6 messages per minute. You can either add > > more modems or use bulk outbound messaging (i.e. via Clickatell for > > example). > > > > I look forward to have answers to these and I am thinking I will come > > > back with some more on need basis. > > > > Thanks again for this awesome work. Keep up the good work. > > > > --Pradeep --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "SMSLib User Group" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/SMSLib?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
