[hobbit] SMS over analog modem

[Klaus-Peter Boden]

"Rafal Roginela" <Rafal.Roginela at AmeriCashLoans.net> schrieb am 27.03.2008 
16:15:57:

> Hi all,
> 
> I’m very ignorant in terms of (well… everything ;) SMS so I have 
> some questions:
> 
> 1. Is it possible to send SMS over analog modem?
> 2. What software I would use to do this? (Howto, samples?)
> 3. Does anyone else use this type of setup with Hobbit?
> 4. Maybe I’m just totally off base and there is a better solution 
> for getting alerts when my Internet access is down?

Hi,

our preferred solution for now about 6 BigBrother and later hobbit years 
is, to use a GSM Modem. Hardware from Falcom seems to be very robust, at 
the moment we use a falcom twist (I think its no longer available) and a 
falcom tango modem (costs about 150 Euros which is ??? USD). This is 
connected via serial interface to the hobbit servers. You can use external 
amplified antennas, what is a good idea if your server is in a well 
shielded server room ;-)

As software we use the smstools3 (http://smstools3.kekekasvi.com) 
Configuration is very easy.

A commandline tool sendsms is included, which allows to send sms directly 
from the shell prompt, so integration into hobbit is really simple, you 
just use the SCRIPT directive in hobbit-alerts.cfg

best regards
Klaus
-kpb>

> 
> As always Thank you ahead of time for your consideration. And great 
> job, this software gets better and better as I learn more about it.
> 
> Thank You,
> 
> Rafal Roginela
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