[asterisk-users] SMS text messaging capabilities

Elliot Murdock murdocke at gmail.com
Fri Dec 26 04:28:57 CST 2008


Hello,

Sorry, just to avoid confusion, in my last post, the proper smsq command is:
smsq --motx-channel="Zap/g3/7285267" 7286657 "test"
and not to the number 2285267 as stated in the previous post.

Elliot

On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 12:26 PM, Elliot Murdock <murdocke at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Thanks for all of your help.  For testing, I am trying to set up a
> loopback sms run.  However, the sms message does not seem to go
> through.  Here are the details of the the loopback test:
>
> 1. The initial sms send command:
> smsq --motx-channel="Zap/g3/2285267" 7286657 "test"
>
> Note that 7285267 is a DID that directs back into the Asterisk system
> over the digium Zap device.
>
> 2. Here the dialplan for handling the incoming sms call:
> exten => 7285267,1,noop("SMS ${EXTEN}")
> exten => 7285267,2,sms(${EXTEN}|as)
> exten => 7285267,3,hangup
>
> I would assume that this dialplan will simply process the incoming
> call and save the message in the /var/spool/asterisk/sms/ directory.
> However, no incoming message appears in any directory.  Furthermore,
> no sms log file ever appears in the /var/log/asterisk directory
> either.
>
> This is the response I get from the the Asterisk console:
>
>    -- Attempting call on Zap/g3/7285267 for application SMS(0) (Retry 1)
>    -- Requested transfer capability: 0x00 - SPEECH
>    -- Accepting call from '7285660' to '7285267' on channel 0/23, span 3
>    -- Executing [7285267 at pbx:1] NoOp("Zap/85-1", ""SMS 7285660"") in new stack
>    -- Executing [7285267 at pbx:2] SMS("Zap/85-1", "7285660|as") in new stack
>    -- SMS TX 93 00 6D
> [Dec 26 12:23:13] WARNING[2647]: pbx.c:5170 ast_pbx_outgoing_app:
> Zap/63-1 already has a call record??
>       > Channel Zap/63-1 was answered.
>       > Launching SMS(0) on Zap/63-1
>  == Spawn extension (pbx-transfer-mor-redirect, 0772285296, 2) exited
> non-zero on 'Zap/85-1'
>    -- Hungup 'Zap/85-1'
>    -- Channel 0/1, span 3 got hangup request, cause 16
>    -- Hungup 'Zap/63-1'
> [Dec 26 12:23:23] NOTICE[2647]: pbx_spool.c:351 attempt_thread: Call
> completed to Zap/g3/7285267
>
>
> Thanks for any help,
> Elliot
>
> On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 1:57 PM, Hans Witvliet <hwit at a-domani.nl> wrote:
>>
>> On Sat, 2008-12-20 at 19:27 +0200, Elliot Murdock wrote:
>> > Hello!
>> >
>> >
>> > What kind of sms text messaging capabilities does Asterisk have?
>> >
>> > I do not know very much about about SMS technology, but I am looking
>> > for the following features:
>> >
>> > 1. mobile SIP devices can send and receive SMS messages
>> >
>> > 2. Asterisk server be able to accept and send SMS messages through PRI
>> > lines and Internet connections.
>> >
>> > I noticed that Asterisk has an SMS function, but I am not farmiliar
>> > enough with that technology to make it useful.
>> >
>> > Any help with this would be great!
>>
>>
>> Hi Elliot,
>>
>> sms-service is included in Asterisk since 1.2.
>> Just tried it out, (from cli):
>>
>> smsq --motx-channel="mISDN/1/0673644444" 061368506 "testje"
>>
>> =first number is the fixed-sms-provider (here, KPN)
>> =second number is the target
>>
>> Just taken rightout from the wiki pages.
>> I presume one could set the MSN-as well,
>>
>> hw
>>
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