asterisk users - Feb 2009 - SMS /w Asterisk

Hi all,

I'm looking into being able to send/receive SMS messages with my
asterisk box in the US.  I've seen the SMS command as well as the Kannel
program.  I'd prefer to do it from Asterisk.

I've tried something like:

exten => 999,n,sms(15551234567,s,"This is a test")

in my dialplan, but when this runs, it dials the phone number and then
nothing.

What am I missing?

Mike.

On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 12:39 AM, Mike Diehl <mdiehl at diehlnet.com>
wrote:
> I'm looking into being able to send/receive SMS messages with my
> asterisk box in the US.  I've seen the SMS command as well as the
Kannel
> program.  I'd prefer to do it from Asterisk.
<snip>

Do you have SMS service on the phone line? I've always thought SMS was
uncommon if not inexistent in the USA. I used SMS with asterisk in
both directions for years and it worked great, but that was in Europe
where fixed line SMS is common.

Suggest you look at http://voip-info.org as there is a lot of info there on SMS.

hth

/r

On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 10:15 AM, Remco Barendse <asterisk at barendse.to>
wrote:
> On Tue, 10 Feb 2009, Steve Totaro wrote:
>
>>> In that case, you would not need Asterisk at all.  If you can
create
>>> call files can you hit a URL from your CRM as well?
>
> Not really, the app cannot open a browser, but it can create a file on a
> samba share quite easily.
>
> Therefore going through asterisk seemed to be the way. Alternatively i
> could try and recreate something similar like call files for asterisk,
> have the crm app create a text file with the complete url in it and feed
> the url to a browser like links.  However with my skills at writing
> scripts being zero i thought that going through asterisk is the most
> obvious way for me.
>
>> If you wanted to go through Asterisk, I would think a call file that
>> drop into a context with a FastAGI to your CRM that returns the text
>> would be my approach, or similarly, through the manager interface.
>
> OK, thanks, i will throw all that in Google-o-matic and see what comes up
> :)
>
>
How about a Samba share with a regular cron job or a process that
watches that folder and fires off lynx then moves or deletes the file
from the Samba share?

The browser does not need to stay open, just a call to the URL and then close.

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