Handset to use for automated SMS sending?

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gbuchana(a)teksavvy(dot)com - 08 Nov 2006 03:43 GMT

I have an application where I want to send an SMS, probably
once a day, from a remote system. I want to be able to connect
a cheap old handset with a PAYG SIM to a PC and install the
lot in a rural location -- where there is GSM coverage.

The handset and the computer that drives it would run off a
lead-acid battery and a solar panel, probably for weeks at
a go, unattended.

I'm looking for pointers to a cheap old handset model that can
do GSM1900 and that has an accessible RS232 protocol for sending
SMS messages under computer control.

I've had a quick look at the gnokii software that I could
use with a Nokia 5190 or 6190. Are there newer handset models
that are readily available used, for cheap, that support a more
straight-forward protocol, like the "AT" commands? What should
I be looking for?

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JF Mezei - 08 Nov 2006 08:31 GMT

> I've had a quick look at the gnokii software that I could
> use with a Nokia 5190 or 6190.

6190 was about the last generation of Nokia phones that ddi not have an
integrated AT modem emulator in it. Newer ones that support GPRS and
have serial support would have an AT command set that make writing
software much simpler. 6190 and before required very proprietary software.

Examples:
http://www.cellular.co.za/at_etsi.htm

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Oxygen Software - 08 Nov 2006 15:12 GMT

Hello!

Have you tried Oxygen Mobile ActiveX Control ( http://www.smsactivex.com/ )?
This product is compatible with the following models:

3100, 3105, 3108, 3200, 3210, 3300, 3310, 3330, 3350, 3390, 3410, 3510,
3510i, 3560, 3570, 3585, 3585i, 3586, 3590, 3595, 3610, 5100, 5110, 5130,
5190, 5210, 5510, 6100, 6108, 6110, 6150, 6190, 6200, 6210, 6220, 6250,
6310, 6310i, 6340, 6340i, 6510, 6560, 6590, 6610, 6650, 6800, 7110, 7190,
7210, 7250, 7250i, 8210, 8250, 8290, 8310, 8390, 8810, 8850, 8855, 8890,
8910, 8910i

We support IRDA, Bluetooth and cable connection (including non-original
ones).

Best regards, Maxim Vyalkov.
Oxygen Software - tools for your mobile phone.
Oxygen Phone Manager II - all you want from your mobile phone.
http://www.opm-2.com/
http://www.oxygensoftware.com/

>I have an application where I want to send an SMS, probably
> once a day, from a remote system. I want to be able to connect
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> Gardner Buchanan gbuchana(a)teksavvy(dot)com
> FreeBSD: Where you want to go. Today.

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gbuchana(a)teksavvy(dot)com - 09 Nov 2006 00:15 GMT

Hi Maxim,

> Hello!
>
> Have you tried Oxygen Mobile ActiveX Control ( http://www.smsactivex.com/ )?
> This product is compatible with the following models:

Thanks for the idea. I think the computer that controls the phone
will be a Gumstix http://www.gumstix.org/ single board computer
running Linux or BSD Unix, not a Windows computer.
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