[asterisk-users] Asterisk SMS()

[Hans Witvliet]

-----Original Message-----
From: A J Stiles <asterisk_list at earthshod.co.uk>
Reply-to: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
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To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
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Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Asterisk SMS()
Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2013 16:50:10 +0000

On Tuesday 19 February 2013, Nicholas Johnson wrote:
> Thanks for the help.  Right now I'm running asterisk on a raspberry pi
> using a phone number from flowroute.  Is using a company like flowroute
> the same as connecting to the PSTN?  Also i've tried to install smsq but I
> couldn't find any good documentation to get it setup properly.  So no, I'm
> not using smsq.

The bad news:  You need a GSM modem to send SMS messages.

The good news:  It is not so.

You can send SMS messages on POTS or ISDN lines
See the voip-wiki about it