Step 1: Connect the cell phone or dongle. Other distro's may work, I haven't tried any. I got a prepaid Simyo card for 5 euro which is valid forever, on the condition that I send at least 1 sms every 6 months. And yes, you can send and receive SMS messages with them too! The advantage is that you won't need any of the items listed above under a. You can easily get one for less than 10 euro. Hence, people dump their Huawei dongles on eBay. Which is rather uncool in the age of the smartphone. They look like big ol' memory sticks with a USB connector their purpose is to connect your laptop onto the internet in the middle of nowhere. It turned out, however, that my local internet provider used to sell "internet dongles", which are Huawei GSM (and UMTS) modems. Needed: they also support wireless internet. At first, I dismissed the idea because they do more than If you Google "Raspberry Pi SMS", you're bound to see the term ' Huawei GSM modem' pop up here and there.Note: if your cell phone has a data cable with a USB connection, you won't need the converter. RS-232 to USB converter, commonly made by FTDI (or at least their converter chip is more or less the industry standard).This is because the M35 may need to be always on. RS-232 data cable for the M35 via eBay, which I modified so that the plug into the phone also carries the."Real" GSM modem hardware may cost upwards of 180 euro.
#Duly noted rpi serial#
There are lots of cheap cell phones available second hand that support serial communication.
#Duly noted rpi for free#
I got it for free back in 2001, from my bank. The first thing I tried (and got working) was an old Siemens M35 cell phone, which I still had lying about.The bits about the Huawei GSM modem were also added (22 January 2013). Some steps were added that I felt were missing i.e. Some steps in this article are derived from Skovgaard's. So I figured the SMS Gateway would make a nice Pi project. It has a much smaller footprint, both ecological and in centimeters squared. I'd been curious to try that, but the old PC I had destined for it was kind of a power hog.
#Duly noted rpi how to#
Apparently, such a device is called an SMS Gateway.įebruary 2011, Elektor magazine had a really useful article by Hans Henrik Skovgaard, which outlined how to set up an SMS gateway on a PC with Damn Small Linux (DSL). You'd need a device that can receive an SMS message and do something according to what's in it. (If ever you get an idea and you wonder if it's any good, just leave it. And like all truly good ideas, it kept lingering. 'Wouldn't it be nice', my wife said, 'if we could send an SMS to turn the heater on?' The house would be really cold when we got home. It was about 10 below zero outside and we still had an hour to drive. In the morning before we left, we had turned down the heater.
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