[asterisk-users] SMS /w Asterisk

[Steve Totaro]

On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 9:36 AM, Steve Totaro
<stotaro at totarotechnologies.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 9:23 AM, Remco Barendse <asterisk at barendse.to> wrote:
>> On Tue, 10 Feb 2009, Steve Totaro wrote:
>>
>>> Kannel is probably the best way to go in the States, unless you want
>>> to sign up with an aggregator.
>>>
>>> I use Kannel and a bank of Sony Ericsson phones.  To send SMS, you
>>> just have to hit a URL on the Kannel server with a properly formatted
>>> URL.  I just use System() to call Lynx with the correct variables (the
>>> message you want to send).
>>
>> Just out of curiosity, how did you transfer the text you want to SMS to
>> Asterisk? Can that be done through a call file? I want to SMS from a CRM
>> app, the CRM app can create call files but for security reasons i do not
>> want the sms server accessible from the network to each PC that can run
>> the CRM app.
>>
>> On voip-info there are some affordable GSM adapters that also provide an
>> SMS server accessible by URL, i would like to do something similar like
>> you did, would you be willing to post your configs?
>>
>> Thanks a 1,000,000 :)
>>
>
> In that case, you would not need Asterisk at all.  If you can create
> call files can you hit a URL from your CRM as well?
>
> The config files for Kannel are very simple with slight alterations
> from the samples generated from what is created from building from
> source.  Most of the alterations are to use the Sony phones as GSM
> modems.
>
> Kannel's learning curve is slight if you are just using it for simple
> SMS through a GSM modem, of course, doing WAP Push or proxying
> requires a bit more in the way of learning.
>

If you wanted to go through Asterisk, I would think a call file that
drop into a context with a FastAGI to your CRM that returns the text
would be my approach, or similarly, through the manager interface.

Thanks,
Steve