[asterisk-users] Asterisk SMS()

[Stelios Koroneos]

> 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
> 

In the US (and other parts of the world) there are SMS gateways the
providers offer to reach their subscribers
They are free and since you are using a raspberry which means no direct
pstn interface might be a good approach with the help of some AGI/bash
scripting

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Stelios S. Koroneos