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Related Links
Should you wish to dig deeper into this matter, develop your own application
or try other related applications, here are a few categorized links that I
found usefull and that might help you getting started.
Did you notice any link to be broken ? Or do you know of any valuable
resource that should be included here ? Please feel free to
let me know about it.
SMSLink Companion Sites
- SMS Link Add On'S: Full-featured,
native Win32 client, Linux-based queue server for pre-0.55b installs and complete
schematics of serial+power combo cable for handheld mobiles.
- Riccardo Facchetti's Home Page:
You'll find libmodem (and more) in the "download" section of his site.
GSM Generic Info
- GSM Home: Intel-sponsored GSM
site with lots of links.
SMS Generic Info
SMS Protocol Info
- ETSI: ETSI Home Page. You can
register and download some freely available protocol specs, GSM 03.40
being one of them.
- SMS messages and the PDU format:
a very detailed explanation of PDU message format and encoding.
Good introduction
to some key concepts, and in-depth discussion of each field.
The best reference there is, outside
ETSI itself.
- SMS PDU Info:
Field by field description of the PDU format, color-coded and with some
accompanying comments.
- SMS: Well presented
definition of most basic concepts and terms related to GSM and
SMS processing. Pointers to the reference mentionned
above.
- SendMyStuff by "@_:
a more detailed description of PDU format, with code example.
SNPP Protocol Info
(SNPP = Simple Network Paging Protocol)
SMPP Protocol Info
(SMPP = Short Message Peer-to-Peer)
- SMS Forum: established to foster and promote
SMS to the benefit of the Wireless Industry, and to manage/enhance SMPP.
GSM Modules Tech Info
- Falcom A1:
Manual for FALCOM A1 as PDF - File, Version 2.77.
- Falcom A2:
Manual for FALCOM A2 as PDF - File.
- Falcom A2D:
Manual for FALCOM A2D as PDF - File (V1.06).
- GenSM-2:
Manual for Gener GenSM-2 (aka Wavecom WM02), firmware ver. 3.20 and above.
-
Siemens M1: Siemens M1 manual (PDF file).
- AT+C commands:
a comparison of all the at+c commands and their syntax supported on each
of the major GSM modules.
Related Apps
- SMS Server Tools:
Full-featured SMS gateway, quite close to SMSLink in functionalities. Also uses
GSM modems to send.
- SMS Client: Angelo Masci's
SMS sending software. Uses a plain modem and the provider's dial-up
interface to SMS. Requires a provider-specific "driver". Also features
an address book.
- SMaSh: SMaSh is a program
for sending messages to digital phones, pagers and other devices you can
communicate with. Client / server architecture and dynamic plugin
system. Currently features plugins for dialup access to various
providers and for net access to web-based forms.
- Alamin GSM SMS Gateway: gateway
for exchanging messages between GSM and IP networks. Currently supports
Nokia phones through Gnokii, and GSM modems allowing the sending of
SMS in text mode.
- Kannel: Open Source WAP and
SMS gateway by Wapit Ltd.
- SmsSend:
allows you to send free SMS to any GSM, connecting to Internet sites using
scripts. It is available both for Windows and Unix.
- Pagey:
Pagey is a paging/SMS daemon written entirely in Python. It accepts
SNPP connections and supports multiple paging devices (currently
Siemens M1and M20 SMS devices). It comes with a simple Email to SMS
gateway.
- Boomerang GSM:
commercial but open-source development library for Delphi and Kylix.
Enables sending and receiving SMS, EMS, SmartMessages, EMI, SMPP,
Siemens SEO, etc. from graphical or command-line programs.
- mail2sms:
converts an email to a string susceptible of being sent via SMS. Doesn't
deal with the sending itself.
- email2sms:
like the previous one, but written in Perl, and using a special Perl
module to "compress" the text by removing spaces and unnecessary vowels.
Crams as much meaning as possible in 160 chars, but rather hard to read.
- SMS-mail:
Sms-mail reads SMS messages from a GSM modem and passes them on as
email. For those of you who pass email on to your mobile phone via
your telco's mail-to-sms gateway, this completes the circuit, allowing
you to reply to the email from the mobile phone too.
- Gnokii: an attempt
to reverse-engineer the serial protocol used to interface with Nokia
mobile phones.
- Spk: Speakerphone program
for use with voice-enabled modems.
- Minicom:
the debugging tool for anything serial.
- SLSNIF:
serial line sniffer. Listens to the specified serial port and logs
all data flowing through it.
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