See in line comments.
-Jason
Nikos Balkanas wrote:
Hi,
Please see inlined answers. For all answers check relevant info in the
latest userguide.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Jason Higbee"
<[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, March 05, 2009 6:43 PM
Subject: setup Kannel Mac OSX 10.4, Samba 75 Modem, daemon + parachute
Users,
I'm planning a project so I am looking for advice and corrections on
what I think Kannel can do.
I have:
Mac OS X 10.4.11
Samba 75 (Siemens MC75) USB modem with the modem scripts
- it can connect with another SMSC program on port
../tty.usbmodem1B11 or ../cu.usbmodem1B11 (not sure the difference
but both seem to work)
I have compiled Kannel 1.4.2 on my Mac but haven't properly
configured and used it as a SMSC to send and receive messages. I plan
on recompling with Kannel 1.4.3 as the bug report suggests.
I also have php scripts setup to receive the HTTP GET requests.
There seems to be a confusion here. I presume you refer to DLRs (SMS
delivery confirmations). Otherwise kannel doesn't have php builtin and
can only use php to send HTTP requests (Push) .
Sorry for the confusion. the php is my script on my server set up to
receive HTTP GET requests.
Here's what I need Kannel to do:
(1) forward the received messages through a HTTP GET across the
internet;
Yes, through sms-service.
Great.
(2) to run as a Mac daemon so I can sleep the computer and it will
still run.
Mac is Unix. I imagine that anything running unattented will also run
in sleep mode. This is feature in Unix systems for the past 30 years
(daemons).
Nice. I've used other daemons that run while in sleep mode and connect
to the internet, so it would be great if I could get kannel to do the same.
(3) to tell me the signal strength of the modem (i.e. how many 'bars'
so I know I'm not in a deadzone);
Dunno. Maybe someone else can help. But this is not strictly a kannel
issue. If the modem gets garbled messages, kannel cannot help (GIGO).
Yeah perhaps there's some AT commands I can send through kannel.
(4) automatically restart itself if it loses connection to modem (I
believe this is called parachute mode);
No. It will restart only if process panics. But not to worry. It has a
queue. If it looses connection to an SMSc, this SMSc is marked
inactive. Other SMSc connections can pickup the traffic. In addition,
kannel will try to reconnect to the inactive SMSc, according
parameters set in the configuration.
That's good. Does anyone have any practical experience with this? Does
Kannel do a good job of detecting when the SMSc is down and
reconnecting? (also, I'll read up on what exactly 'panic' means).
(5) and store messages received locally in a database (I believe this
done through an addon called sqlbox; I use MAMP for a local instance
of MySQL but would use anything that would work with this system).
I don't know MAMP, but yes, you can do that with sqlbox. Other
embedded choices are controlled through "store-type" paramater in core
configuration and are "file" or "spool" (directory).
Yeah that's great. Just flat files are fine too.
So I am hoping Kannel can hit a home run and do all that! Please
correct me if I'm wrong and point me in the right direction on these
5 things to create this Kannel system.
Thanks.
Best of luck,
Nikos
Thanks for your comment Nikos, I appreciate it.
