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| Ben New member Username: Smash Post Number: 1 Registered: 11-2007 |
I have a phone here in the US and I'm testing some methods to use it as a gateway for sending MMS messages to myself and co-workers. This could be very helpful to the company.... So, what I want to do is get two different phones and have each of them send messages to people. (it'll come from either of the two numbers depending on the task involved) I've tested it from my phone manually (typing in the message and sending it) but it seems like you guys would know more about letting a script do it for us? We use AT&T as a service provider here and have nothing put together so far -- what would I need to buy (just a few phones and data-cables, or some actual modems?) and how can I configure the software for this kind of task? | |||
| mihad mirgany New member Username: Sendrella Post Number: 1 Registered: 11-2007 |
How can send a short message using ota for closing the mobile phone through a mobile phone last (shutdown)? Please help. | |||
| Bryce Norwood - NowSMS Support Board Administrator Username: Bryce Post Number: 7516 Registered: 10-2002 |
Hi Ben, For sending SMS or MMS, there are quite a few phones that can be used as modems. (Receiving SMS or MMS using a phone as a modem tends to be less widely supported.) Generally speaking, most Nokia and SonyEricsson phones (excepting SonyEricsson phones that use the UIQ interface) ... and quite a few Motorola phones support the basics. (Note that Motorola phones do not support sending long SMS or binary SMS.) Unfortunately, which phone models are offered by which mobile operators is something that is constantly changing. So I can't tell you which phone models currently offered by AT&T will work as a modem for sending SMS and/or MMS. A dedicated GSM modem device, like a Multitech GPRS or EDGE modem, is a good alternative, because you don't have to play guesswork about which modem features have been implemented by your phone manufacturer. If you go the dedicated modem route ... basically, you just remove the SIM card from a phone, and put it into the modem ... you don't have to provision anything special with the mobile operator. Even though your ultimate goal is sending MMS ... I'd suggest starting with SMS. Then once that is working, move on to MMS. Note that the default configuration of NowSMS is to operate as a direct delivery MMSC. You DO NOT want to use that configuration. You want to route MMS messages via the operator MMSC over the modem for delivery. (See http://www.nowsms.com/howmmsworks.htm and http://www.nowsms.com/documentation/ProductDocumentation/mms_notifications_and_c ontent/Connecting_to_operator_MMSC.htm for information on how to configure NowSMS in this way.) Initially, start with just using the NowSMS web interface to send messages. From there you can move on to generating HTTP requests from your own application and/or web server. There are also command line interfaces that can be useful: http://blog.nowsms.com/2007/07/sending-mms-from-command-line.html http://www.nowsms.com/support/bulletins/tb-nowsms-008.htm
I should also touch on this part of your question as well. You can attach multiple modems to a single PC running NowSMS. But, our web interface won't allow you to select which modem to use for sending a message. You can specify which modem to use when you send a message via direct URL or scripted submission ... you just need to include a "Sender" (or "MMSFrom" for MMS messages) parameter that matches the phone number of the modem through which you want to send the message. -bn | |||
| Bryce Norwood - NowSMS Support Board Administrator Username: Bryce Post Number: 7517 Registered: 10-2002 |
I'm sorry, but I don't understand the question. Do you mean "lost" instead of "last"? I'm guessing that you want to disable a "lost" phone. There's no way to do this unless you had an application running on that phone ... where you could send a message to that application ... and that application could take some action to disable the phone. Otherwise, if this were possible, it would be widely abused with people targeting innocent mobile phone users for disabling their phones. -bn | |||
