hobbit, falcom Samba55 and SMStools 🔗 link

Hello.
 
I am trying to get smstools to communicate to my Samba 55 USB modem on linux, to no awail..
 
I know this is not exactly the spot to ask about this, but as this is the first step to get hobbit to send SMS with Samba and smstools I shoot anyhow..
 
I turned off the pin request in a mobile before inserting the sim card into the Samba...
 
the system registers the modem as ttyUSB0 and i have that in the smsd.conf (device = /dev/ttyUSB0) but the system never seems to get response from the GSM modem... it does not respond to AT commands or anything.. green light is blinking on the unit (meaning it connects to the gsm network I think)
 
 
what am I doing wrong?

On fös, 2008-07-04 at 11:27 +0000, Lárus Rafn Halldórsson wrote:

Hi Lárus, we are using gnokii to communicate with the GSM phone from the server, and Hobbit sms is working fine. We are however using an old Nokia phone and a special serial cable, so that will not help you much. Have you tried gnokii
http://www.gnokii.org/ with this phone. 
Also, where did you get the device. I am very interested in finding another GSM device with USB interface, because we will soon be moving our Hobbit server to a hardware where serial interface may not be an option. In that case, I would be trying to do the same thing as you are now. :) 
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hello Anna (and the rest)
 
gaman að sjá íslendinga hér sem fastagesti :) ertu með stórt kerfi?
 
well, stamina pays off.. I figured out the problem and SMSTools is working now.
 
the baud rate for the Falcom Samba 55 must be set to 115200 in the SMSTools config file and the receiver sms phone number must be sent in international format to the device (+354xxxxxxx for Iceland)
 
next step is to figure out how to get hobbit to send sms through SMSTools :)
 
I bought the Falcom Samba 55 gsm/gprs modem from openxtra online store in GB, it was around 20.000 isk including TNT transport to Iceland. http://www.openxtra.co.uk/products/accessories/sms-modems/samba55/prodsamba55.html
 
I can´t say that I found much information on the net, but when I found this on the baud rate, everything worked fine.
 
regards,
Larus

p.s. the Samba 55 is recognized as a USB-serial bridge device, so normal serial communications can be used if the kernel is built with USB support. the device is just called ttyUSB0 in stead of normal tty0 or /dev/modem or something similar. just use 115200 bps 8n1.

 

From: Anna Jonna Armannsdottir [mailto:user-a8cde33204f6@xymon.invalid]
Sent: fös. 4.7.2008 14:44
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: Re: [hobbit] hobbit, falcom Samba55 and SMStools


On fös, 2008-07-04 at 11:27 +0000, Lárus Rafn Halldórsson wrote:

Hi Lárus,
we are using gnokii to communicate with the GSM phone from the server,
and Hobbit sms is working fine.
We are however using an old Nokia phone and a special serial cable,
so that will not help you much. Have you tried gnokii
http://www.gnokii.org/ with this phone.

Also, where did you get the device. I am very interested in finding
another GSM device with USB interface, because we will soon be moving
our Hobbit server to a hardware where serial interface may not be an
option.
In that case, I would be trying to do the same thing as you are now. :)

--
Kindest Regards, Anna Jonna Ármannsdóttir,       %&   A: Because people read from top to bottom.
Unix System Aministration, Computing Services,   %&   Q: Why is top posting bad?
University of Iceland.