Comments on: Setting up a SMS server using Gnokii

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?

By: Dev

Dev — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 18:54:35 +0000

@ Ryan Upgrade to Gnokii 0.6.27 or .28. It now supports all Non Symbian series40 mobiles. Its not available on the repositories yet, so you’d have download the official tarball and compile from source. Make sure to have all the -dev packages as mentioned in the install-readme file.

Once compiled you should use:
port: your bluetooth address in aa:bb:cc:dd: format. Use hcitool to find your mobile’s address.
connection = bluetooth
model = series40

You should then be able to read received messages via Xgnokii or through smsd-mysql, besides sending as well.

In case your having an issues setting up, add:
logging to your gnoiiirc conf file and set it debug to on to read errors on the terminal.

By: Anup

Anup — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 20:03:08 +0000

Hi dude. Cool work even i was trying out to the same thing i have installed gnokii and its working fine. Now the problem that i am facing is with smsd.I have created the database and all those required. Problem is that the sms are not going out from outbox. Can u please tell me where exactly we are going wrong.How we have to insert the values into database. Thank u.

By: Jenna

Jenna — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 18:01:21 +0000

Nice post and blog! Greets.

By: jah_roach88

jah_roach88 — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 18:40:23 +0000

For ryan, I also got same problem with you, just install mysql_devel….
# yum install mysql_devel

By: ryan

ryan — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 00:18:00 +0000

I install the Xgnokii and it was successful but what happen is that I can only send sms, I can’t receive even though I receive the message in my celphone.. I’m using nokia 3120 classic via bluetooth.

Another issue is that, when I used the command “gnokii –getsms ……” it also does not work for me…
Can anyone help me on this? please….

Thanks…