Comments on: Setting up a SMS server using Gnokii

By: implantacion erp

implantacion erp — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 18:18:57 +0000

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By: pandu

pandu — Sat, 21 May 2011 14:59:01 +0000

Hi Hari can u please figure out what is the wrong with this error

glibc detected *** smsd: double free or corruption (fasttop): 0×08115660 ***
======= Backtrace: =========
/lib/libc.so.6(+0x6c501)[0x658501]
/lib/libc.so.6(+0x6dd70)[0x659d70]
/lib/libc.so.6(cfree+0x6d)[0x65ce5d]
smsd[0x804a9c4]
smsd[0x804af65]
smsd[0x804b257]
/lib/libpthread.so.0(+0x5cc9)[0x48ecc9]
/lib/libc.so.6(clone+0x5e)[0x6bc69e]
======= Memory map: ========
00110000-00152000 r-xp 00000000 08:08 1707278 /usr/lib/libical.so.0.44.0
00152000-0015a000 r–p 00042000 08:08 1707278 /usr/lib/libical.so.0.44.0
0015a000-0015b000 rw-p 0004a000 08:08 1707278 /usr/lib/libical.so.0.44.0
0015b000-00164000 r-xp 00000000 08:08 7210864 /lib/libpcsclite.so.1.0.0
00164000-00165000 r–p 00008000 08:08 7210864 /lib/libpcsclite.so.1.0.0

By: sp2hari

sp2hari — Thu, 05 May 2011 16:15:43 +0000

Hey, can you drop me a mail @ sp2hari AT gmail DOT kom

By: problem in using gnokii utility

problem in using gnokii utility — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 13:44:22 +0000

[...] timed out. Quitting. Command timed out. i followed as in the http://www.gnokii.org/docs.shtml and http://sp2hari.com/2008/04/18/settin…-using-gnokii/ and except this "Note that you will need read/write permissions on whatever serial port you [...]

By: Manish G Jain

Manish G Jain — Sat, 12 Feb 2011 14:16:54 +0000

Hello sp2Hari,
As part of my course work, ‘m tryin to develop a sms server which will host the agricultural information. I have been trying to make Gnokii work from past 6 mohts but was just able send SMS but not recieve them as the phones which i used did not support for the gnokii –getsms command. The handsets i used are quite new i.e Nokia 5130, 3500,6233. But i found ur blog two days back and found tht i ve followed all the steps u ve mentioned here… and also got the phone which u used i.e 7250i but now when i gave th command lsusb i am not able to find any dev file lik /dev/ttyUSB0 or /dev/ttyACM0. And also after installin gnokii smsd, not able to find th command smsd. I’m runnin fedora 12 and gnokii .0.6.29. please help me in this regard.

Regards,
Manish G Jain

By: Nicolas

Nicolas — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 16:01:16 +0000

I’m building my own voting system at the moment. Your post was really helpfull. I still have some practical questions. Can you send me an e-mail please?

Thanks,
Nicolas

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By: Pradeep

Pradeep — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 12:32:42 +0000

Hi, set up gnokii and everything. I can send SMS from the terminal, getalarm time and all the gnokii functions. But I am not able to retrive the messages from my phone by the command u mentioned. I use a nokia 3110c phone. Any idea or workarounds?

By: sp2hari

sp2hari — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 20:11:18 +0000

@rahul,
Yeah, at times, smsd crashes with a segmentation fault. This is at times troublesome.. But the good thing is that when you start smsd when it is already running, it doesn’t start a second instance. So you can have a cron running which starts smsd every 2 or 3 mins..
Hope that helps..

By: Rahul

Rahul — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 08:31:37 +0000

Just one more thing, I’ve noticed that the SMSD just dies after a while… say 15 minutes. I have to restart it manually from the terminal. Is this normal with what you faced? I’m going to give a presentation in a week on this in college and I wouldn’t want the thing to die on me when I ask the audience to take the system for a spin!

By: Rahul

Rahul — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 08:29:36 +0000

Thanks for the lightening fast reply! :) Thanks a lot because I was having nightmares trying to make a PHP Daemon out of the script, it was just beyond me! If you don’t mind, could you just share the simplest approach to it? Say, the script is sp2hari_is_god.php ( ;) ), how do I start the cron job for it? Further, would the cron be system dependent or would kill once the terminal is closed?

I tried several phones during the past few weeks. Older Nokia’s like 3120 seem to work but since my phone was a bit rusty, it would keep losing the connection. I tried Samsung SGH-B520 as well. It recognises the phone over an AT connection but doesn’t provide all functionality since the SMSD can’t communicate with it. The best results I have gotten are from Sony Ericsson phones. I use AT connection and the phone model is C510. “gammu –monitor 1″ yields a lot of good information from the device which shows that it’s supported. Further, the SMSD communicates effortlessly with it. So, any normal current generation SE phone is the best bet in my opinion because obtaining older Nokia’s is a pain. Gammu, I believe is essentially a fork of Gnokii and the author maintains a great database of supported phones here : http://wammu.eu/phones/

By: sp2hari

sp2hari — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 08:16:18 +0000

@rahul,
hi, great to know that you have crossed the major hurdle.. Yes, cron is the way to solve this. Opening the page in the browser is not going to help, since you request for the php page only (when you open the link) and not every 5 seconds. Cron is the best way to do this quick and easy. :)

On a different note, what model phone did you use?

By: Rahul

Rahul — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 08:10:58 +0000

I’m implementing my SMS gateway using Gammu. I’ve got everything from the phone working to the SMSD running. I have LAMP installed. I’ve dished out a PHP script similar to the Thank You script you have here. I’m kind of new to this so wanted to ask you how exactly are you going to run the PHP script every 5 seconds so that it polls the database for new messages? Do we have to start a cron job or probably try and run the PHP script as a daemon? I’m using Ubuntu and I’m a bit confused regarding this part because opening the PHP script in the browser and keeping it running yields no result. Any inputs?

By: Jase

Jase — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 05:25:39 +0000

@ Joko
The workaround to set the message centre using the connect_script didn’t work too well.
It set the message centre ok but when gnokii continued the initialisation one of the commands it sends is ATZ which clears the message centre number again.
Does anyone know of a way to stop gnokii sending the ATZ or maybe getting a script to run after initialisation?