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Like the author, I also rolled my own SMS-over-XMPP solution a few years ago. One central ongoing frustration is that a lot of what people think is SMS really e
by simmons 8y ago
Like the author, I also rolled my own SMS-over-XMPP solution a few years ago. One central ongoing frustration is that a lot of what people think is SMS really ends up being MMS. Not only do I miss pictures, but people send group texts that silently miss me, and messages over the SMS character limit are also sent over MMS. It sends 160 characters over SMS, and the rest is chopped off if you don't have MMS. Some (many/most?) messaging apps don't give you a character count any more, so I can't even tell people to watch the characters...
I believe Twilio has some sort of MMS support, so maybe this could be made to work with their service. My VoIP provider doesn't support MMS, so I may have to migrate to Twilio some day.
- bfred_it 8y ago> messages over the SMS character limit are also sent over MMS. It sends 160 characters over SMS, and the rest is chopped off if you don't have MMS I've never seen my phone switch to MMS automatically because of the length. I've had old black/white Nokias support concatenated SMS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concatenated_SMS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concatenated_SMS
- simmons 8y agoI see. It may be that Concatenated SMS is what my VoIP provider is failing to support. (I saw some talk once about fallback to MMS for long messages, but maybe that was just speculation or an uncommon scenario.) I guess I'm in the same boat either way. :/
- ossguy 8y agohttps://jmp.chat/ https://jmp.chat/ supports MMS and concatenated SMS. JMP has full support for sending and receiving picture messages, and can receive group texts as well (which Twilio doesn't support). Sounds like JMP is what you want for an SMS-over-XMPP solution. You can even port in your number from your existing VoIP carrier - see https://jmp.chat/#existing https://jmp.chat/#existing for details.