Re: Sending and receiving sms through same phone

[Aaron S.]

On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 4:58 PM, Daniele Forsi<address@hidden> wrote:
> 2009/7/11 Aaron S.:
>
>> I have a Motorola E398 which I have successfully used to send and
>> receive sms through gnokii but not both at the same time. My
>> requirement is to make the process automatic i.e. the phone should
>> parse the sms message and send an appropriate response.
>
> the *phone*?
> if you meant "computer" then you may want something like playSMS
> (Linux only, I think)
> http://playsms.sourceforge.net/
>
Err, I meant the computer, using the phone...

>> I was thinking
>> about writing a Windows service (my client's requirements Win32) which
>> uses gnokii.dll's exported functions or maybe invoke gnokii.exe with
>> appropriate arguments (personally I don't want to invoke a new
>> process).
>
> invoking gnokii.exe wouldn't be reliable and possibly inefficient for
> a number of reasons, eg you need to keep alive some types of
> connections else the phone stops them and starting and stopping a
> connection takes time and sometimes fails
>
I thought that too.
>> But before I do that, I just wanted to confirm if this sort
>> of thing has already been implemented?
>
> do you know smsd? It is a daemon that sends and receives SMS.
>
Yes I know about that but as I said my client wants to run this on
Windows XP. Anyhow, I have managed to use gnokii.dll and build a
Windows service.

Thanks for your help :).

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Cheers,
Aaorn