Yedidyah Bar-David wrote:
Hi all,
I am looking for recommendations for hardware to send SMSs from a linux
server and connected through its USB port. It's important that it'll be
stable and robust. I'd also like it to:
1. be easy to buy in Israel and get warranty/support
2. have good support in both the kernel and relevant user-mode tools
3. be able to manage from remote, especially reboot if it's stuck
4. be fast
5. not be expensive
I use a Hauwei (or is it Huawei?) dongle. The asterisk chan_dongle
driver allows you to make and receive calls and send and receive SMSs.
I was able to find one for sale in Haifa using ZAP, after someone who is
not on this list pointed me to,a I bought one from an eBay vendor
selling them. He sells them for under $50 including registered mail from
Hungary, and they take less than 2 weeks to get here.
I paid about 300 NIS including postage for the one I bought here. It was
the only one that store had at that time.
Since the dongle is managed by asterisk, you can send an SMS using all
of the asterisk functions, or by the shell command "asterisk -rx dongle
sms <dongle name> <number> message."
You can also query its status, the status of the connection, and load
and unload the module with asterisk commands.
Only slightly related, I found that my unlimited SMS plan only covers
SMSs to Israeli phones. It's about 1/2 a shequel to SMS overseas, even
to numbers that include unlimited calls.
Geoff.
--
Geoffrey S. Mendelson, N3OWJ/4X1GM/KBUH7245/KBUW5379
"Owning a smartphone: Technology's equivalent to learning to play
chopsticks on the piano as a child and thinking you're a musician."
(sent to me by a friend)
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