SMS Gateway

Sarfaraz

Has anyone tried incorporating SMS gateways like ClickaTel http://www.clickatell.com.

I would like to enable it for my site, though it is paid service, but very useful... please suggest.

aric

The statusnet code uses the the email to sms gateway, true sms is very expensive.
If you would like to write an sms plugin, we may be able to help you, but we dont have a paid account to test with.

Sarfaraz

I would love to work on plugin.. but need some guidance as I am sure it is not as easy as I think.

aric

@Sarfaraz Ok, ill get back to you on this

Sarfaraz

@aric did you get chance to discuss this? I would love to contribute for this project if possible financially.

aric

I think we have hooks for email events, so the plugin should work, i think, where if its enabled, it wont send through the email gateway it would use some api. like this one below.
https://labs.ericsson.com/apis/sms-send-and-receive/

Sarfaraz

@aric could you please help me to locate those hooks? I struggled with no luck.

Harshad

i have got a gammu enabled server hooked with a gsm modem. And i want to use it with statusnet.

i think the latest version of statusnet dosent allow this.

Please include the functionality of integrating users server in statusnet, would be a tremendous step and esp with all programs available in opensource, even you guys can provide your own sms servers for your corporate users.

silversurfer

@aric when will statusnet get a sms clickatell plugin?

jordanc

@silversurfer StatusNet will be using smpp for it's sms plugin, not a proprietary service. The plugin is still in development. Although you or anyone else are more than welcome to look into creating a clickatell plugin for StatusNet. Thanks!

silversurfer

when will this plugin (smpp) come out?

Sarfaraz

I still did not get any luck with SMS gateway integration. Anyone has tried it so far?

Thanks,
Sarfaraz
http://www.thesarfaraz.com

JonTheNiceGuy

To use Gammu's SMS daemon, one simply needs to add an entry to an SQL table; as follows:

INSERT INTO outbox (DestinationNumber, TextDecoded) VALUES ('$phone_number', '$message');

Obviously, this doesn't help the original poster, but it might help someone who wants to write a Gammu plugin :)

Sarfaraz

@JonTheNiceGuy That helps...


Thanks,
Sarfaraz
http://www.thesarfaraz.com