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| Gary Fergie New member Username: Fergico Post Number: 1 Registered: 03-2004 |
Hi all. Im doin a university project on e-voting using SMS. Ive been using another program - GSMActive - and a nokia mobile phone to implement this. After my data cable failing and everything else going wrong i though i shoul try another way. Basically I need to be able to receive SMS and redirect it to a perl script, the perl script will process the sms then send a SMS back to the sender. How will I be bale to receive sms? Is it only possible to receive if you use a mobile phone + datacable or a gsm modem? Is it possible to recieve messages with a clickatell account ? Thanks | |||
| Bryce Norwood - NowSMS Support Board Administrator Username: Bryce Post Number: 2215 Registered: 10-2002 |
Hi Gary, I'm not sure about Clickatell, but some SMS services will allow you to sign up for an account that allows you to receive messages. This generally costs considerably more than using a GSM modem (or phone with inbuilt GSM modem). So I doubt that would be a good option for a university project. (In fact, what many providers won't tell you unless you ask, is that they setup a GSM modem with a SIM dedicated for your account, and simply route messages received over that modem to you over TCP/IP. At least that is common among the lower cost providers ... higher cost options will often have a direct operator feed instead.) NowSMS can be configured to call a script on an HTTP server when an SMS message is received. Details on that interface are found here: http://www.nowsms.com/documentation/ProductDocumentation/2_way_sms_support.htm (You would need to have a GSM phone attached, or an account with an SMS service provider that used SMPP, CIMD2 or UCP/EMI.) -bn | |||
