[Asterisk-Users] Voicemail => SMS

[Mark Charlton]

On 7/1/05, Peter Bowyer <peeebeee at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 01/07/05, Mark Charlton <mcwebtree at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > I have been fighting with the Bayham Systems FastSMS AGI script, and I
> > re-wrote it as a stand alone Perl script.  I am now calling it with
> > the EXTERNNOTIFY option in the voicemail.conf file.  It gets passed
> > the context, extension and number of messages which I build into a
> > text, and since they all go to the same location its no problem.  I'm
> > planning on using the extension info to open the mailbox, and read the
> > text file for the latest message to pull out the caller for the text.
> > I might also have an extension map in a text file so I can look up who
> > to notify about a VM.
> 
> I also hacked Bayham Systems' script. I need to control the MWI on GSM
> phones, which is turned on and off by custom SMS messages (which
> Bayham helpfully provide macros for). And I needed to avoid sending
> repeat notifications when a second or subsequent new message was left.
> 
> I ended up keeping a flag in a db file which stores per mobile number
> what state the MWI is in for that phone. If the flag says the MWI is
> already set when a new message comes in, then the script is a no-op,
> otherwise it sends the 'MWI on' SMS and flips the flag. Ditto in
> reverse.
> 
> Works fine and dandy here.
> 
> 
> Peter

How do you monior when the VM is listened to to turn off the MWI on the mobile?
Mark