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| Peter Thompson New member Username: Ee8prt Post Number: 1 Registered: 03-2004 |
Hi, Has anyone succesfully got the 2-way SMS function working using a GSM modem as opposed to a direct SMSC connection?? If so, could anyone let me know which mobile devices this works on (I've tried with a Sony-Ericsson t68i with cable connection, but this doesn't appear to forward incoming SMS to the nowsms gateway software). Thanks, Pete | |||
| audin Unregistered guest |
Hi, it wont help you but I'm currently testing the software with WAVECOM Fastrack M1206 and I do have the same problem. I can send but I can't receive :-( | |||
| audin Unregistered guest |
Hi, YEAH ! You have to check box receive SMS on your Modem properties page. | |||
| Peter Thompson New member Username: Ee8prt Post Number: 2 Registered: 03-2004 |
Hi audin, Thanks for that, but I'm using a USB Cable Connection to a T68i as my GSM Modem and there doesn't appear to have an option to enable SMS receiving under the modem properties page. Have you had SMS receiving working succsefully on a particular device? | |||
| ashot shabazian New member Username: Tyrebusters Post Number: 2 Registered: 03-2004 |
"Have you had SMS receiving working succsefully on a particular device?" I used Ericsson T39M through IR port and Sierra 750 AirCard, both receive SMS. Both devices weren't quite stable - I had to "test" them every once in a while and also stop and start service to make them work. Note that I had both devices installed at the same time, perhaps that was the reason they hung. Interestingly, the prog does evenly distribute the load between them - the slower one (ericsson) would send less messages than the faster one (Sierra) Also if you make one of the modems receive messages while both are sending the receiving modem won't stop sending, it would just slow down. Was anyone able to get delivery acknowledgements? | |||
| Bryce Norwood - NowSMS Support Board Administrator Username: Bryce Post Number: 2095 Registered: 10-2002 |
Hi Pete, The T68i is one of my favourite phone modems to use with NowSMS (I like the fact that it supports serial, USB or bluetooth, so it is quite flexible). I've never had a problem configuring NowSMS to receive messages with the T68i. As audin mentions, make sure that NowSMS is set to receive the messages. On the "SMSC" page of the NowSMS configuration, highlight the modem definition and press the "Properties" button. Make sure that "Receive SMS Messages" is checked, and leave "SMS Message Storage" to the "Default" setting. Also on the "2-way" page, make sure that "Process Received SMS messages" is checked. Most of the time when people tell us that receive messages is not working, the problem is not actually with NowSMS getting SMS messages from the modem, but the problem is with the commands defined in the "Received SMS Command Table". So, try removing all commands from that table, but leave "Process Received SMS Messages" checked. (Make sure to hit "Apply" after making these changes.) Send a message in to the gateway, and see if a file appears in the "SMS-IN" subdirectory of the NowSMS installation (this directory will be automatically created when the first received message is processed). If you see message files being created in the "SMS-IN" directory, then NowSMS is able to pull the messages off of the modem. And the question would then be about the commands that you are defining in the "Received SMS Command Table". Note that NowSMS runs as a service, and cannot launch any programs on to the desktop of the PC. For some reason, as a test, it seems that a lot of people configure NowSMS to run NOTEPAD against received messages ... and that definitely will not work. It needs to be a command that can run in the background. (The ECHO example in our docs is a good suggestion if you are just looking for a test.) If none of these suggestions get you anywhere, then I would like to see an SMSDEBUG.LOG from your system. Manually edit SMSGW.INI, and under the [SMSGW] section header, add Debug=Yes. Then restart the NowSMS service. Send in a message to the phone attached to the gateway. Then post the SMSDEBUG.LOG in response to this message, and we'll try to sort out what we see from that log. -bn | |||
| Peter Thompson New member Username: Ee8prt Post Number: 3 Registered: 03-2004 |
Thanks for that. It appears the problem I was having was with the cmd I was trying to trigger. Removing this resulted in incoming messages being receieved as you described. Cheers, Pete | |||
