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Sending and Receiving SMS on Linux

151 points by p4bl0 11y ago

mrcactu5 11y ago
i thought the only way you could do this was with Twilio or something
- teach 11y ago
  If you've got a VPS like most of us do, you're right. Unless you can convince your VPS provider to stick the GSM modem in your server rack....
  - voltagex_ 11y ago
    Oh the stories I could tell you of some old Nokia phone that was actually in a datacenter for an app I worked on. There was no cell reception in the new datacenter location, so that method was decommissioned.
- api 11y ago
  I have code to 'curl' Twilio to notify me of certain things that need attention. It works and it's really cheap.
- zAy0LfpBZLC8mAC 11y ago
  Serious question: How can you think that if you can buy wireless computers that can send and reveive SMS via their wireless connection ... that the only way to do so would be via some internet service?!? edit: hello idiots! you might not believe it, but downvoting doesn't actually answer my question.
- javajosh 11y ago
  This is a technique for a cheap DIY Twilio.
  - Animats 11y ago
    Whether or not it's cheaper varies by country. US Mobile claims $9/month (plus undisclosed fees) for "unlimited" SMS, which isn't bad.
- dzhiurgis 11y ago
  Advantage of Twillio (besides an actual API) is ability to get a short number. Unfortunately they do not serve every single market.
- carlosdp 11y ago
  It's arguably a lot easier to use Twilio for something like this because there's no hardware needed and you can be up and running in about 5 minutes for a simple setup. That said, the real difference here is probably that Twilio allows you to buy a bunch of numbers cheap so you can scale SMS. Carriers sometimes filter out messages if they are sent too often by one number, so it helps to spread the load across several if you are talking to a lot of users (and services like Twilio handle rate-limiting for you). This is really cool though, the second SMS hardware hack I've seen on here this week. Glad to see people playing more in this space (especially in theatre, my other passion). Disclaimer: I work for Twilio
  - MichaelMarner 11y ago
    Hi Carlo. Yep, a nice service that gives you an API is a real winner, and you can send messages much faster. We didn't go that route because we were projecting out of a van. in rural South Australia, and had no data connection. This was actually put together for an interactive, mixed media theatre project, If There Was A Colour Darker Than Black I'd Wear It. I've posted the followup on my website: http://www.20papercups.net/software-projects/an-interactive-projection-mapped-graffiti-wall/ http://www.20papercups.net/software-projects/an-interactive-... Cheers
msherry 11y ago
I remember doing this a few companies ago. Except we didn't have a modem, we just found a phone we could send commands to. It had some user interface that would pop up after every sent message, so we rigged up a terrible little hack to press the acknowledge button every few seconds to dismiss it. It worked surprisingly well :) Photo of this amazing disruptive device: https://i.imgur.com/6MNb19R.jpg https://i.imgur.com/6MNb19R.jpg
- therein 11y ago
  Haha, that's a nice solution. I recently did something like this and the process really makes you dislike the AT command set. If you don't want to take an old GSM phone apart to find its serial pins, a simple USB GSM modem, pretty much any USB GSM modem should be able to expose a /dev/ttyUSB* interface.
  - voltagex_ 11y ago
    Older modems are /dev/ttyUSBx or /dev/ttyACM but newer modems might be using the MBIM [1] standard and don't really expose AT interfaces to the user. 1: https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/networking/cdc_mbim.txt https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/networking/cdc_mbim...
    - noselasd 11y ago
      MBIM does however expose an SMS and voice interface - if the device supports it. Though I can't see an obvious way to access it with the kernel API.
- jleehey 11y ago
  Side note to your post, the w800 in your picture was my all time favorite phone. I'm a full time Android developer now and I consider the Java programs I first worked on with the w800 to be the reason behind my interests :)
- agumonkey 11y ago
  Very geohot of you
cmdrfred 11y ago
This is really stupid, but it works. https://github.com/WilliamFCipriano/FreeSMS https://github.com/WilliamFCipriano/FreeSMS
- echochar 11y ago
  gateways.list is quite useful. Are there lists that include more carriers (non-US)?
  - voltagex_ 11y ago
    The other question is do any non-US providers have these gateways? Optus and Telstra in Australia don't support this kind of Email-to-SMS (at least, not for free).
    - deleted 11y ago
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  - cmdrfred 11y ago
    I have found this list helpful http://ram.kossboss.com/list-of-sms-mms-gateways-for-phone-companys/ http://ram.kossboss.com/list-of-sms-mms-gateways-for-phone-c...
  - taco_emoji 11y ago
    This one is nicely organized: https://github.com/cubiclesoft/email_sms_mms_gateways/blob/master/sms_mms_gateways.txt https://github.com/cubiclesoft/email_sms_mms_gateways/blob/m...
- alanpost 11y ago
  I've tried using the gateway published there to send an SMS message to my phone, but my wireless service provider won't accept messages from my email server.
  - cmdrfred 11y ago
    What carrier? Have you attempted it with a gmail account?
castratikron 11y ago
Is it really too hard to send some AT commands to a serial port nowadays? Talk about reinventing the wheel.
endgame 11y ago
Very cool. Is there any way to do this with more modern technology than GSM?
matt_wulfeck 11y ago
This is a great write up. At first I was thinking "just use an api..." But the engineer quickly showed how easy it was with just a tiny bit of elbow grease.
- MichaelMarner 11y ago
  Yep. We couldn't use an API anyway because we were projecting out of the back of a van, in rural South Australia. We were lucky to have any phone reception at all!
Omie6541 11y ago
This is cool. I am only going to suggest that there is also this : https://github.com/haxpax/gosms https://github.com/haxpax/gosms Written in Golang, simple api to push messages to queue, takes care of AT protocol for you. Also supports load balancing if you have multiple modems :) Disclaimer: I am a co-author of that project. HN thread when we published it : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9029341 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9029341 It is only for sending messages though
Elv13 11y ago
My SIP provider (Voip.ms (I am unaffiliated to them beside being a customer)) just send them by email, for free. It's included in my ~0.70$ USD per monthly plan (pre-paid almost forever on a 25$ payment). So, these day, I find it ridiculous to pay for a carrier voice/sms plan. It's pointless. The worst thing that can happen is having a use a VPN on top of the SIP stream for carriers that void net neutrality. Tablet data plan + SIP = win * You get your calls on your computer and devices, all of them, for the same price. * You can script your softphone to pause your music and answer in your music headset * You can add a SIP server in from of the link to add new features. * You can inter-operate media stream from Skype/(name your IM app) and "real" phones for "free"[1] using pulse audio / core audio. * Usually, multiple line, transfer and conferences are included, you don't have to pay extra. If they are not, you can implement them using your own SIP server or some scripts. * Most softphone have multiple account support, so you can have your business phone and home phone on the same devices, but with different Ringtones. The possibilities are near limitless _and_ it is beyond cheap. The main downside is that you almost have to be an IT person to be able to make it all work :P You don't have to pay for Skype _and_ a phone plan, only your phone plan. /shameless plug If your using Ring.cx (I am one of the dev), you can also seamlessly make end-to-end encryptet and decentralized/P2P calls if your peer also use Ring.cx (or anything SIPS compatible, minus the decentralized part, so technically risking a MiM).
- cookiecaper 11y ago
  It's been a long time since I've tried to do serious SIP usage on Linux, but way back when, I could never get a client that worked consistently. One or the other would work fine for a while, until either the client, a library elsewhere on the system, or the SIP server would update, and then it'd misbehave terribly and I'd have to go through the roulette and try to find another client that worked well (not always possible). Is the situation better now? What do you use?
  - voltagex_ 11y ago
    When I looked for a Windows and a Linux SIP client, I found that most things were based on PJSIP so all suffered the same problems. SIP (and RTP/RTMP) are complex to implement, so I don't think many people try.
tezza 11y ago
I used to do this back in 2005. Forgive me if something has changed in the intervening years. There was a rate limit for receiving and sending SMSes via the hardware approach. My experiments yielded 1 per 20 seconds iirc In the end my implementation purely received via hardware and exited via a bulk SMS provider like clickatell clickatell at that stage allowed big users to set the 'sender caller id'. This was loved by spammers unfortunately so the providers became much more cagey about allowing that feature.
- MichaelMarner 11y ago
  Michael here (author of the post). We didn't find any rate limits when receiving SMS, but found sending to be quite slow. Fine for our needs, but if you need to send a lot you may be better off paying for access to a gateway.
n1000 11y ago
So why is no one implementing a ssh two factor authentication around this?
- Tepix 11y ago
  You're mistaken, this problem has already been solved as 10 seconds of Google-Fu have revealed.
  - n1000 11y ago
    Could you share the insights of your research? I only found solution involving the Google API (as it was also discussed here some days ago).
    - cornelinux 11y ago
      You could use privacyIDEA, which is a two factor auth server and is also capable of sending SMS via HTTP gateways. BUT: You would rather want to use 2nd factors like HOTP or TOTP token or a yubikey.
    - Tepix 11y ago
      https://startpage.com/do/search?query=ssh+two+factor+sms https://startpage.com/do/search?query=ssh+two+factor+sms turns up Authy as the first hit.
- swiley 11y ago
  SMS isn't particularly secure. It's a little disturbing that some people use it for authentication.
  - n1000 11y ago
    Please tell my bank :) If you have an iphone it will even sync it back to your Mac for you :D
- ianlevesque 11y ago
  TOTP is superior, no chance of social engineering your phone company to redirect the messages.
z3t4 11y ago
There are apps on Android that lets you run your (old) phone as a SMS gateway. Just plug it into a usb port and select usb tethering. Then on the server/pc: ethtool usb0 sudo ifconfig usb0 192.168.100.100 ip addr show usb0
giech 11y ago
There is (was?) also Gnokii [1] for old Nokia phones, which I've used successfully. I even managed to port a small part of it to Arduino to send a message automatically (code [2] and write-up [3]), but these days there are shields with much better interfaces than the Nokia FBus (e.g. using the SIM900 chip [4]). 1: http://www.gnokii.org/ http://www.gnokii.org/ 2: https://github.com/giech/arduino_nokia_6310i https://github.com/giech/arduino_nokia_6310i 3: https://ilias.giechaskiel.com/posts/arduino_sms/index.html https://ilias.giechaskiel.com/posts/arduino_sms/index.html 4: http://www.simcom.ee/modules/gsm-gprs/sim900/ http://www.simcom.ee/modules/gsm-gprs/sim900/
europa 11y ago
I have successfully used an Android device as a cheep SMS gateway. An app installed on the device acted as the gateway and messages are triggered from the server via GCM push messages to the device. Incoming messages to the device are intercepted by a receiver on the device and posted back to the server.
amatix 11y ago
I recently used gammu[1] to receive SMS messages on OSX using a Huawei modem, then forward them into iMessage[2]. Gammu's written in python and works great on Linux. Goal was to have my old foreign number still able to receive SMS (receiving messages while roaming is free in most countries), and have them appear in iMessage on my current phone. 1: https://github.com/gammu/gammu https://github.com/gammu/gammu 2: https://gist.github.com/rcoup/93460ea39b05e957e884 https://gist.github.com/rcoup/93460ea39b05e957e884 Edit: gammu is cross-platform
- INTPenis 11y ago
  I also use Gammu, smstools was new to me. We've been using Gammu for over 5 years now for on-call alerts or other small services. It has worked very well with an ordinary 3G dongle you can buy to get mobile internet on your laptop. The SIM card is provided by the company since we're a large telco we get pretty much free unlimited SMS from them. This has been used in two different data centres without any reception issues, even though they're properly shileded data centres and we have no external antennae. Only issues have been forced re-seats of the USB dongle a few times a year, most likely due to oxidation on the connector.
  - amatix 11y ago
    The only thing I've had trouble with is suspend/resume/etc on OSX which seems to hang gammu occasionally. I used the cheapest E170 I got from Ebay, the hardest part was messing with all the unlock tools to get it to play with the SIM in the first place :)
uvesten 11y ago
Blast from the past! I remember using SMS server tools and a cyclone(?) 8 port RS-232-hub to drive a bunch of GSM modems to act as an SMS gateway for a company back in '99. Funny to see that the software is still around.
baldfat 11y ago
Hangouts does all my SMS texting. Though having a modem to send text messages reminds me of setting up pager systems in the early 1990s.
albert007_d 11y ago
I have a ready to use bootable sdcard image for raspberry Pi(built with buildroot). This solution allows you to deploy your raspi and huawei-E173 behind your home router, and access the sms send/receive functionality via google-hangout. In this setup, you need two google accounts, one for you and second one for your raspi-xmpp-chat-bot. You can have the whole setup up and running within 5minutes. This project is a opensource hosted on github. here are the details: http://albert-david.blogspot.de/2016/01/rbox-remotely-deployed-gsm-sim.html http://albert-david.blogspot.de/2016/01/rbox-remotely-deploy...

151 points by p4bl0 11y ago

mrcactu5 11y ago

i thought the only way you could do this was with Twilio or something

teach 11y ago
If you've got a VPS like most of us do, you're right. Unless you can convince your VPS provider to stick the GSM modem in your server rack....
- voltagex_ 11y ago
  Oh the stories I could tell you of some old Nokia phone that was actually in a datacenter for an app I worked on. There was no cell reception in the new datacenter location, so that method was decommissioned.
api 11y ago
I have code to 'curl' Twilio to notify me of certain things that need attention. It works and it's really cheap.
zAy0LfpBZLC8mAC 11y ago
Serious question: How can you think that if you can buy wireless computers that can send and reveive SMS via their wireless connection ... that the only way to do so would be via some internet service?!? edit: hello idiots! you might not believe it, but downvoting doesn't actually answer my question.
javajosh 11y ago
This is a technique for a cheap DIY Twilio.
- Animats 11y ago
  Whether or not it's cheaper varies by country. US Mobile claims $9/month (plus undisclosed fees) for "unlimited" SMS, which isn't bad.
dzhiurgis 11y ago
Advantage of Twillio (besides an actual API) is ability to get a short number. Unfortunately they do not serve every single market.
carlosdp 11y ago
It's arguably a lot easier to use Twilio for something like this because there's no hardware needed and you can be up and running in about 5 minutes for a simple setup. That said, the real difference here is probably that Twilio allows you to buy a bunch of numbers cheap so you can scale SMS. Carriers sometimes filter out messages if they are sent too often by one number, so it helps to spread the load across several if you are talking to a lot of users (and services like Twilio handle rate-limiting for you). This is really cool though, the second SMS hardware hack I've seen on here this week. Glad to see people playing more in this space (especially in theatre, my other passion). Disclaimer: I work for Twilio
- MichaelMarner 11y ago
  Hi Carlo. Yep, a nice service that gives you an API is a real winner, and you can send messages much faster. We didn't go that route because we were projecting out of a van. in rural South Australia, and had no data connection. This was actually put together for an interactive, mixed media theatre project, If There Was A Colour Darker Than Black I'd Wear It. I've posted the followup on my website: http://www.20papercups.net/software-projects/an-interactive-projection-mapped-graffiti-wall/ http://www.20papercups.net/software-projects/an-interactive-... Cheers

msherry 11y ago

I remember doing this a few companies ago. Except we didn't have a modem, we just found a phone we could send commands to. It had some user interface that would pop up after every sent message, so we rigged up a terrible little hack to press the acknowledge button every few seconds to dismiss it. It worked surprisingly well :) Photo of this amazing disruptive device: https://i.imgur.com/6MNb19R.jpg https://i.imgur.com/6MNb19R.jpg

therein 11y ago
Haha, that's a nice solution. I recently did something like this and the process really makes you dislike the AT command set. If you don't want to take an old GSM phone apart to find its serial pins, a simple USB GSM modem, pretty much any USB GSM modem should be able to expose a /dev/ttyUSB* interface.
- voltagex_ 11y ago
  Older modems are /dev/ttyUSBx or /dev/ttyACM but newer modems might be using the MBIM [1] standard and don't really expose AT interfaces to the user. 1: https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/networking/cdc_mbim.txt https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/networking/cdc_mbim...
  - noselasd 11y ago
    MBIM does however expose an SMS and voice interface - if the device supports it. Though I can't see an obvious way to access it with the kernel API.
jleehey 11y ago
Side note to your post, the w800 in your picture was my all time favorite phone. I'm a full time Android developer now and I consider the Java programs I first worked on with the w800 to be the reason behind my interests :)
agumonkey 11y ago
Very geohot of you

cmdrfred 11y ago

This is really stupid, but it works. https://github.com/WilliamFCipriano/FreeSMS https://github.com/WilliamFCipriano/FreeSMS

echochar 11y ago
gateways.list is quite useful. Are there lists that include more carriers (non-US)?
- voltagex_ 11y ago
  The other question is do any non-US providers have these gateways? Optus and Telstra in Australia don't support this kind of Email-to-SMS (at least, not for free).
  - deleted 11y ago
    [deleted]
- cmdrfred 11y ago
  I have found this list helpful http://ram.kossboss.com/list-of-sms-mms-gateways-for-phone-companys/ http://ram.kossboss.com/list-of-sms-mms-gateways-for-phone-c...
- taco_emoji 11y ago
  This one is nicely organized: https://github.com/cubiclesoft/email_sms_mms_gateways/blob/master/sms_mms_gateways.txt https://github.com/cubiclesoft/email_sms_mms_gateways/blob/m...
alanpost 11y ago
I've tried using the gateway published there to send an SMS message to my phone, but my wireless service provider won't accept messages from my email server.
- cmdrfred 11y ago
  What carrier? Have you attempted it with a gmail account?

castratikron 11y ago

Is it really too hard to send some AT commands to a serial port nowadays? Talk about reinventing the wheel.

endgame 11y ago

Very cool. Is there any way to do this with more modern technology than GSM?

matt_wulfeck 11y ago

This is a great write up. At first I was thinking "just use an api..." But the engineer quickly showed how easy it was with just a tiny bit of elbow grease.

MichaelMarner 11y ago
Yep. We couldn't use an API anyway because we were projecting out of the back of a van, in rural South Australia. We were lucky to have any phone reception at all!

Omie6541 11y ago

This is cool. I am only going to suggest that there is also this : https://github.com/haxpax/gosms https://github.com/haxpax/gosms Written in Golang, simple api to push messages to queue, takes care of AT protocol for you. Also supports load balancing if you have multiple modems :) Disclaimer: I am a co-author of that project. HN thread when we published it : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9029341 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9029341 It is only for sending messages though

Elv13 11y ago

My SIP provider (Voip.ms (I am unaffiliated to them beside being a customer)) just send them by email, for free. It's included in my ~0.70$ USD per monthly plan (pre-paid almost forever on a 25$ payment). So, these day, I find it ridiculous to pay for a carrier voice/sms plan. It's pointless. The worst thing that can happen is having a use a VPN on top of the SIP stream for carriers that void net neutrality. Tablet data plan + SIP = win * You get your calls on your computer and devices, all of them, for the same price. * You can script your softphone to pause your music and answer in your music headset * You can add a SIP server in from of the link to add new features. * You can inter-operate media stream from Skype/(name your IM app) and "real" phones for "free"[1] using pulse audio / core audio. * Usually, multiple line, transfer and conferences are included, you don't have to pay extra. If they are not, you can implement them using your own SIP server or some scripts. * Most softphone have multiple account support, so you can have your business phone and home phone on the same devices, but with different Ringtones. The possibilities are near limitless _and_ it is beyond cheap. The main downside is that you almost have to be an IT person to be able to make it all work :P You don't have to pay for Skype _and_ a phone plan, only your phone plan. /shameless plug If your using Ring.cx (I am one of the dev), you can also seamlessly make end-to-end encryptet and decentralized/P2P calls if your peer also use Ring.cx (or anything SIPS compatible, minus the decentralized part, so technically risking a MiM).

cookiecaper 11y ago
It's been a long time since I've tried to do serious SIP usage on Linux, but way back when, I could never get a client that worked consistently. One or the other would work fine for a while, until either the client, a library elsewhere on the system, or the SIP server would update, and then it'd misbehave terribly and I'd have to go through the roulette and try to find another client that worked well (not always possible). Is the situation better now? What do you use?
- voltagex_ 11y ago
  When I looked for a Windows and a Linux SIP client, I found that most things were based on PJSIP so all suffered the same problems. SIP (and RTP/RTMP) are complex to implement, so I don't think many people try.

tezza 11y ago

I used to do this back in 2005. Forgive me if something has changed in the intervening years. There was a rate limit for receiving and sending SMSes via the hardware approach. My experiments yielded 1 per 20 seconds iirc In the end my implementation purely received via hardware and exited via a bulk SMS provider like clickatell clickatell at that stage allowed big users to set the 'sender caller id'. This was loved by spammers unfortunately so the providers became much more cagey about allowing that feature.

MichaelMarner 11y ago
Michael here (author of the post). We didn't find any rate limits when receiving SMS, but found sending to be quite slow. Fine for our needs, but if you need to send a lot you may be better off paying for access to a gateway.

n1000 11y ago

So why is no one implementing a ssh two factor authentication around this?

Tepix 11y ago
You're mistaken, this problem has already been solved as 10 seconds of Google-Fu have revealed.
- n1000 11y ago
  Could you share the insights of your research? I only found solution involving the Google API (as it was also discussed here some days ago).
  - cornelinux 11y ago
    You could use privacyIDEA, which is a two factor auth server and is also capable of sending SMS via HTTP gateways. BUT: You would rather want to use 2nd factors like HOTP or TOTP token or a yubikey.
  - Tepix 11y ago
    https://startpage.com/do/search?query=ssh+two+factor+sms https://startpage.com/do/search?query=ssh+two+factor+sms turns up Authy as the first hit.
swiley 11y ago
SMS isn't particularly secure. It's a little disturbing that some people use it for authentication.
- n1000 11y ago
  Please tell my bank :) If you have an iphone it will even sync it back to your Mac for you :D
ianlevesque 11y ago
TOTP is superior, no chance of social engineering your phone company to redirect the messages.

z3t4 11y ago

There are apps on Android that lets you run your (old) phone as a SMS gateway. Just plug it into a usb port and select usb tethering. Then on the server/pc: ethtool usb0 sudo ifconfig usb0 192.168.100.100 ip addr show usb0

giech 11y ago

There is (was?) also Gnokii [1] for old Nokia phones, which I've used successfully. I even managed to port a small part of it to Arduino to send a message automatically (code [2] and write-up [3]), but these days there are shields with much better interfaces than the Nokia FBus (e.g. using the SIM900 chip [4]). 1: http://www.gnokii.org/ http://www.gnokii.org/ 2: https://github.com/giech/arduino_nokia_6310i https://github.com/giech/arduino_nokia_6310i 3: https://ilias.giechaskiel.com/posts/arduino_sms/index.html https://ilias.giechaskiel.com/posts/arduino_sms/index.html 4: http://www.simcom.ee/modules/gsm-gprs/sim900/ http://www.simcom.ee/modules/gsm-gprs/sim900/

europa 11y ago

I have successfully used an Android device as a cheep SMS gateway. An app installed on the device acted as the gateway and messages are triggered from the server via GCM push messages to the device. Incoming messages to the device are intercepted by a receiver on the device and posted back to the server.

amatix 11y ago

I recently used gammu[1] to receive SMS messages on OSX using a Huawei modem, then forward them into iMessage[2]. Gammu's written in python and works great on Linux. Goal was to have my old foreign number still able to receive SMS (receiving messages while roaming is free in most countries), and have them appear in iMessage on my current phone. 1: https://github.com/gammu/gammu https://github.com/gammu/gammu 2: https://gist.github.com/rcoup/93460ea39b05e957e884 https://gist.github.com/rcoup/93460ea39b05e957e884 Edit: gammu is cross-platform

INTPenis 11y ago
I also use Gammu, smstools was new to me. We've been using Gammu for over 5 years now for on-call alerts or other small services. It has worked very well with an ordinary 3G dongle you can buy to get mobile internet on your laptop. The SIM card is provided by the company since we're a large telco we get pretty much free unlimited SMS from them. This has been used in two different data centres without any reception issues, even though they're properly shileded data centres and we have no external antennae. Only issues have been forced re-seats of the USB dongle a few times a year, most likely due to oxidation on the connector.
- amatix 11y ago
  The only thing I've had trouble with is suspend/resume/etc on OSX which seems to hang gammu occasionally. I used the cheapest E170 I got from Ebay, the hardest part was messing with all the unlock tools to get it to play with the SIM in the first place :)

uvesten 11y ago

Blast from the past! I remember using SMS server tools and a cyclone(?) 8 port RS-232-hub to drive a bunch of GSM modems to act as an SMS gateway for a company back in '99. Funny to see that the software is still around.

baldfat 11y ago

Hangouts does all my SMS texting. Though having a modem to send text messages reminds me of setting up pager systems in the early 1990s.

albert007_d 11y ago

I have a ready to use bootable sdcard image for raspberry Pi(built with buildroot). This solution allows you to deploy your raspi and huawei-E173 behind your home router, and access the sms send/receive functionality via google-hangout. In this setup, you need two google accounts, one for you and second one for your raspi-xmpp-chat-bot. You can have the whole setup up and running within 5minutes. This project is a opensource hosted on github. here are the details: http://albert-david.blogspot.de/2016/01/rbox-remotely-deployed-gsm-sim.html http://albert-david.blogspot.de/2016/01/rbox-remotely-deploy...