How to send/receive SMS?

[Silent-Hunter]

Phone calls may be a bit harder due to involving sound, but how would I go about using something like Minicom to receive SMS? I think I know how to send an SMS, but how would I receive one? Does Minicom have some sort of monitor mode?

 

[pmprog]

Here's some links that might help


http://www.smssolutions.net/tutorials/gsm/receivesmsat/


http://www.thegeekstuff.com/2013/05/modem-at-command/

 

[TrashyMG]

echo "Message" | sms_command -n 15556781234

 

[slaeshjag]

Pyra isnt the first linux device with phone functionality, I'm sure there's existing infrastructure that can be used rather than kludging something together in shellscript and zenity...

 

[pmprog]

Pyra isnt the first linux device with phone functionality, I'm sure there's existing infrastructure that can be used rather than kludging something together in shellscript and zenity...

Not saying I've exhausted the t'interwebs, but I've actually had no luck finding anything - which did surprise me.


There's KDE's Kontact - but that's send-only


https://userbase.kde.org/Kontact/SMS

 

[TrashyMG]

Pyra isnt the first linux device with phone functionality, I'm sure there's existing infrastructure that can be used rather than kludging something together in shellscript and zenity...

Well what about a vim plugin? Got to think about the demographic.

 

[Yoyobuae]

http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/ModemManager/


Think it has all the low level stuff we need. Only matter of making a pretty GUI interface on top.


It has a CLI interface:


https://sigquit.wordpress.com/2012/09/14/sms-goodies-in-modemmanager/

 

[edgex004]

I think SMS sending and receiving was integrated into Telepathy as well: https://hashpling.wordpress.com/2013/08/22/sms-messaging-with-telepathy-gsoc-update/


Kannel supposedly can send, receive, and supports AT commands for SMS:


http://www.kannel.org/faq.shtml#1.1


And on the voice side of things, I believe Plasma Mobile has a working dialer: https://projects.kde.org/projects/playground/mobile/plasma-phone-components/repository


EDIT: Added link for Telepathy SMS example.

 

[Silent-Hunter]

Thanks all! Eventually we should have a Pidgin plugin or something, as my other thread mentions.

 

[ashcloud]

There is enough existing software from the openmoko/gta04 projects. Did anyone take a look at http://www.freesmartphone.org/?

 

[valhalla]

A quick axi-cache search in debian (stretch, not jessie) gives a few interesting results (which I haven't tried)

* wammu - GTK application to control your mobile phone
* smstools - SMS server tools for GSM modems
* kannel - WAP and SMS gateway

the latter are meant for servers, but if one of them is lightweight enough maybe it can be used to interface with some IM client.

 

[edgex004]

I used Gammu/Wammu from my Pandebian install on the Pandora with a 3G stick. I don't believe I was able to get it to regularly check for new SMS, but both sending and manually updating the received messages worked fine.