On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 12:03 PM, A J Stiles <asterisk_l...@earthshod.co.uk>wrote:
> On Friday 16 May 2014, Jayson Devor wrote: > > Hello Everyone, > > > > We have an order for SMS messaging. Can you gents and ladies be kind > enough > > to > > disclose if SMS is possible using Asterisk? What is a quick way to test a > > `Hello World` > > to my cell. Finally, do all service providers support SMS messaging? > > > > Kind Regards, > > > > Jayson. > > Certainly with an Asterisk-compatible GSM card such as the OpenVox G400P / > G400E, and some SIM cards, it is possible to send and receive SMS messages. > Which one you need to buy is dependent on your motherboard's expansion > slots: > G400P is PCI (32 bit) and G400E is PCI-express. SMS is baked into the > GSM > standard, so every mobile telephone company in the world have to support > it. > > > You can send a message from the Asterisk CLI with a command such as > > cli> gsm send sms <span> <dest> "<message text>" <id> > > and therefore, from any programming language that has `backticks` or some > other way to execute a shell command. > > > Beware! You may discover very quickly that "unlimited" (as in when your > telco promises "unlimited SMS messages") does not really mean what you > think > it means :/ > > Double beware! Some telcos charge for the delivery report (which is > required > by the driver software to know if or not the message was sent > successfully); > and some telcos require you to obtain written permission in advance to use > their SIM in anything other than an ordinary mobile handset, on pain of > disconnection. > > > You can of course also use this piece of kit to receive SMS messages (they > are logged under /var/log/asterisk/sms/ ; and also, an extension is > triggered > in your dialplan when a message comes in, with some channel variables > populated with the originating number, message content and some other > goodies) > and dial and answer voice calls. > > > -- > AJS > > Note: Originating address only accepts e-mail from list! If replying off- > list, change address to asterisk1list at earthshod dot co dot uk . > > -- > _____________________________________________________________________ > -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- > New to Asterisk? Join us for a live introductory webinar every Thurs: > http://www.asterisk.org/hello > > asterisk-users mailing list > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > Just amazing! A thing of beauty yeah? We will be going with the following card: http://www.voipon.co.uk/openvox-g400p4-p-1150.html Hope setup and configuration will go easy? Jayson
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