I want to know is it possible to send SMS text from my website to GSM modem in my local mechine using AT Command when my webserver and my computer basically two different mechines? I hope someone can give me some explaination of best practice to start sending SMS from a website, im new to this topic. Thanks
This answer is slightly off topic as you're asking specifically how to use your modem. But I've been looking into this recently and would suggest your best option is to go with one of the providers out there who help with this sort of thing (most are pay for services I'm afraid).
I'm using Twilio if that helps. They have a rich API and members of their team do answer questions on SO.
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I am looking for a Paid, Premium service that will allow me to RELIABLY send transactional SMS-es INTERNATIONALLY. Not only to the United States and Canada, but to all over the world. I've been looking around but have had no success finding one. Does anyone know of a platform? I've seen Twilio, but do not think they send International.
I am NOT looking for a bulk spamming service. My need is to send sing up verification codes, password requests, online account notifications and such.
Will appreciate any leads.
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I’ve been googling for a couple of days now! I’m looking at a way of integrating simple mail functions into my android app. A few people have suggested looking at K9 which I have done. This is obviously a fully featured mail client and has far more functionality than I need. I wanted to know whether there was a way using Android API's to connect and retrieve mail?
Any responses greatly appreciated!
There are third party API called JWebServices / JWebDAV . As far as I know they both working on Android
Not really, afaik are no Android APIs you can use for this purpose. You could use the ActiveSync protocol to connect to the Exchange server and pull down the email messages you need.
i will have the following set up:
people will be sending text messages to a server, and that server will be forwarding the messages to other phone numbers
i am not sure what kind of framework i should use.
should i develop an SMS gateway and use AT commands?
should i just try to somehow use AIM or GCHAT to capture and send SMS messages?
would there be a different more suitable configuration?
are there already developed frameworks that are free which i can use? for example i know that i can send an SMS to almost anyone through gchat or aim by sending a message to "+" and the number of the person. is this scalable and can i use it for my own benefit?
any sms developers out there?
I used to use this website: www.aspsms.com.
It provides a lot of libraries in different languages, the prices are affordable (I think) and they offer some kind of "2 ways service".
are there already developed frameworks that are free which i can use?
Free, that would surprise me.
You could get a short code from an aggregator like www.openmarket.com
Do all cell companies have open APIs that allow you to send SMS messages like Twitter does?
Do you have to pay to do this?
Many (most?) mobile companies have email gateways allowing you to send an SMS. For AT&T I believe it's phonenumber#text.att.net, but each provider will have a different address.
This wikipedia article summaries it pretty well. Some cell companies have easy formats. For example, Verizon uses number#vtext.com.
It depends what country you're in.
In the UK to pay to send - receiving is free.
Take a look at messagepub. They provide an easy API so that you can send SMS messages from your application.
If you want a reliable solution then yes you will have to pay for it, there are some limited free versions.
We used Clickatell with an earlier project http://www.clickatell.com/developers.php
It gets a bit more complicated. E-mail gateways may work for some carriers, but not others. As noted, it's based on your cell carrier, what we can the aggregator, and possibly a third-party "intercarrier". However, it also depends on volume. If you're just sending the occasional SMS via e-mail, it certainly can work, but, it's occasional in use, and you don't get the confirmations that your phone normally sees. For volume transfers of messages, you typically need to talk to your carrier about access to their "SMSC gateway". The SMSC gateway speaks an internet protocol (SMPP) to transfer messages from your app, into the carrier clouds. It it designed for volume, and you get response codes for your messages.
What is the easiest way to set up an SMS alerting system so that I will receive notification if my server doesn't respond or a GET query doesn't return correct content?
You can completely outsource the monitoring and alerting, for example by subscribing to Pingdom. The most basic Pingdom plan will monitor up to 5 services (including using HTTP GETs with optional content pattern matching) and send an SMS after a configurable amount of downtime.
If you want to roll your own solution, the first thing to get right is the monitoring software. Many, many third party solutions exist for this, from the free to the outrageously expensive. Of course, rolling your own "try a GET and do something if it doesn't work" script is always an option, but as with all software, feature creep may mean that you're just re-implementing existing solutions soon...
For the SMS notification, using an e-mail-to-SMS gateway might work for you, if you're in a territory well-served by such services. Most US providers, for example, provide free gateways, whereas in Europe they tend to be run by third parties and pay-only. As already suggested, Google is your friend here. Also, your monitoring tool may support sending notifications directly using a cellphone/GSM modem attached to the monitoring server.
Often I've found that what you need is a SMS modem attached directly to your monitoring server. What if the problem is the network connection?
What you want is an SMS gateway. There are surely some service providers local to you. Unfortunately, they are a bit hard to find. Try asking Google...
You can get a service like http://www.serviceuptime.com/ and the send an email to your-number#a-domain-your-provider-gives They usually have the exact domains for the providers on their respective websites but you could just try #t-mobile.com if your provider is t-mobile for example.
If you want to write your own tool should be pretty straightforward - send GET request if you dont get the expected response send email. You should run it from 2 different locations from 2 different ISPs tho because if there are routing problems and the request doesnt go through you'll get smsed