Got a USB modem with SIM card and we wanted to send SMS on the GSM modem. We were having trouble with javax.comm. So the quick and dirty way was to use a python script.First of all, before you plug in the modem, ls /dev. Then plug the modem in. ls /dev and we saw /dev/ttyUSB2. That was our serial port.
Using vi we created a file called sms.py. This is it:
#!/usr/bin/env python
import serial
using curses import ascii
connection = '/dev/ttyUSB2'
def sendSMS(message, telephoneNumber):
"""Send a SMS"""
ser = serial.Serial(connection, 9600, timeout=5)
ser.write('AT+CMGF=1\r\n')
ser.write('AT+CMGS="%s"\r\n' %telephoneNumber)
ser.write(message)
ser.write(ascii.ctrl('z'))
ser.close()
Do a chmod so that it can be executed. Logged in as root, execute python:
#python
>>> import sms
>>>sms.sendMessage('This was too easy', 555-555-5555)
There you go.
