[asterisk-users] Controlling cell phone VM / Fax waiting notification icon for asterisk VM

[Peter Lindquist]

Matt Watson wrote:
> On June 23, 2008 08:08:53 am OCG Technical Support wrote:
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>> I little more digging and I confirmed that cell phone VM and FAX waiting
>> icons are in fact controlled by a proprietary SMS message format.  Here's
>> what I found:
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>> Message Waiting Indication Group: Store Message
>> This Group allows an indication to be provided to the user about the status
>> of types of
>> message waiting on systems connected to the GSM PLMN. The mobile may
>> present this
>> indication as an icon on the screen, or other MMI indication. The mobile
>> may take note of
>> the Origination Address for messages in this group and group 1100. For each
>> indication
>> supported, the mobile may provide storage for the Origination Address which
>> is to control
>> the mobile indicator.
>> Text included in the user data is coded in the Default Alphabet.
>> Where a message is received with bits 7..4 set to 1101, the mobile shall
>> store the text of
>> the SMS message in addition to setting the indication.
>> Bits 3 indicates Indication Sense:
>> Bit 3
>> 0 Set Indication Inactive
>> 1 Set Indication Active
>> Bit 2 is reserved, and set to 0
>> Bit 1 Bit 0 Indication Type:
>> 0 0 Voicemail Message Waiting
>> 0 1 Fax Message Waiting
>> 1 0 Electronic Mail Message Waiting
>> 1 1 Other Message Waiting*
>> * Mobile manufacturers may implement the "Other Message Waiting" indication
>> as an
>> additional indication without specifying the meaning. The meaning of this
>> indication is
>> intended to be standardized in the future, so Operators should not make use
>> of this
>> indication until the standard for this indication is finalized.
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>> Now the tough part...does anyone want to create an app to send notification
>> to a cell phone to set/clear these bits?
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>
> could you provide a link to where you got the info from?  I'd be interested in 
> seeing if i can get this to do anything useful.
>
>   
Maybe this time the message reaches the list. If it doesn't maybe Matt 
can pass this on?

Check out http://www.ihub.com which have lots of information regarding 
SMS messages, you can also use their software as a trial for 60 days to 
see it in action.

//Peter