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Re: Using Mobile Phone email addys for monitoring
From: Henning Brauer <hb-nanog () bsws de>
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2007 11:21:18 +0200
* matthew zeier <mrz () velvet org> [2007-09-06 23:39]:
It's more effective to spend the money on SMS messages. Mobile providers are forced to use very aggressive anti spam measures, which can add significant delays in message delivery.Recommendations on software and modems?
the UMTS PC-Cards you can get rather cheap these days show up as usb controllers with usb-cereal converters behind. add a little kermit magic and you're done (this is on OpenBSD). unlock at boottime (replace 0000 with your PIN): #!/usr/local/bin/kermit + set line /dev/ttyU0 if failure exit 1 set carrier-watch off set input echo on lineout "AT+CPIN?" input 10 "+CPIN: SIM PIN" if failure exit 1 input 10 OK if failure exit 1 lineout "AT+CPIN=0000" input 20 OK if failure exit 1 lineout "AT+CPIN?" input 10 "+CPIN: SIM PIN2" if failure exit 1 input 10 OK if failure exit 1 exit 0 send an sms: parameters: number "message" (+49177... is the SMSC, replace by your provider's one) #!/usr/local/bin/kermit + set line /dev/ttyU0 if failure exit 1 set carrier-watch off lineout ATZ input 10 OK if failure exit 1 lineout AT+CSCA="+491770610000" input 10 OK if failure exit 1 lineout AT+CMGF=1 input 10 OK if failure exit 1 lineout AT+CMGS="\%1" input 10 > lineout \%2 output \26 input 100 ok if failure exit 1 exit 0 of course I have some shell around it for failure handling (retries) etc -- Henning Brauer, hb () bsws de, henning () openbsd org BS Web Services, http://bsws.de Full-Service ISP - Secure Hosting, Mail and DNS Services Dedicated Servers, Rootservers, Application Hosting - Hamburg & Amsterdam
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