sms

I have been planning to set up a SMS Gateway for sending and receiving SMS messages via a headless utility unit (Raspberry Pi) for a while. Since I had a leftover Sierra Wireless AirCard 880U from Telstra in Australia I wanted to re-purpose this unit with a spare SIM card. Unfortunately it was very hard to find any good setup manual for this particular combination and took some time to fiddle & debug. This is the working setup for future reference and hopefully it helps somebody. Install dependencies Note: install usb-modeswitch BEFORE connecting USB Modem sudo apt-get install usb-modeswitch gsm-utils smstools gammu Connect the USB Modem Check if modem is recognised lsub Bus 003 Device 002: ID 1199:6855 Sierra Wireless, Inc. Edit smstools config file vim /etc/smsd.conf Change the GSM1 entry [GSM1] init = ATE0;+CPMS="SM","SM" device = /dev/ttyUSB2 incoming = yes mode = new baudrate = 115200 smsc = 61418706700 pin = ignore #rtscts = yes #cs_convert = yes report = yes sending_disabled = no memory_start = 1 pre_init = yes primary_memory = SM secondary_memory = SM secondary_memory_max = 40 Troubleshooting the modem I installed gammu purely to have an easier way to test if the modem actually worked. You can use gammu-config to do a GUI config or create a config file manually vim /etc/gammurc [gammu] port = /dev/ttyUSB2 connection = at115200 Testing gammu-detect ; Configuration file generated by gammu-detect. ; Please check The Gammu Manual for more information. [gammu] device = /dev/ttyUSB0 name = Phone on USB serial…