Hi, On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 11:12 PM, geoffrey mendelson <geoffreymendel...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Does anyone know the cheapest (or just a cheap one) GSM phone with a USB > interface that is supported by a Linux program to send SMSs? > > In other words, I want to write a program to monitor various conditions and > then send me an SMS if they out of the proper range. I'm looking to spend as > little money as possible. > > I was thinking of a cheap GSM phone with a USB interface connected to a Linux > system. I no longer have a modem for pager emulation, and since one of the > conditions is a down internet connection, I don't want to use the internet to > do it (if I could). > > The question is which phone and what software drives it? I want the SMSs to > arrive at an Orange phone, but I have both Cell-Com and Orange SIMs, so if > one is supported and not the other, it's fine with me if they will send SMSs > to each other. > > I also have a ZTE MF637 modem, I know Linux supports it for dial-up, does it > support it for SMSs? >
We've used for a project that sends/receives SMS simple Sony Ericsson phones. You could go over the supported db for gammu/wammu and find the ones you like: http://wammu.eu/phones/ Of course sms should be one of the supported features ;-) Also see Guy Sheffer's blog post (used a cheep fake Nokia): http://guysoft.wordpress.com/2011/03/27/smsgate/ PS We had problems with gammu-smsd packaged in Debian Lenny - so if you're using Debian, go with Squeeze. Cheers -- Meir _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
