Re: Modemmanager - how to send sms? - receiving is ok

[PongráczI <pongraczi pongraczistvan homelinux com>]

 

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Feladó: "PongráczI" <pongraczi pongraczistvan homelinux com>
Címzett: networkmanager-list gnome org
Dátum: Tue, 31 Jan 2012 13:08:32 +0100
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My negative (unsuccesful) tests:
 

• latest mm-send-sms.py failed, I got this error message (Error org.freedesktop.ModemManager.Modem.Gsm.Unknown: Unknown error) and it seems this python script make something with the dbus, because after that I am not able use the dbus-send to receive sms list from the stick, so, from my point of view, this python script kills the modem in this way. 
  The internet connection was live during, before and after this step, so, it seems it did not harm the data connection, but only the sms related part of modem.
• I am not able to use the command line dbus-send to build up the necessary data structure for sending SMS. Probably I simply stupid, it is possible, but I did not succeed to create the a{sv} structure. The internet connection was live before/during/after this test.

My question is, how to send sms using modemmanager's dbus interface from command line, using dbus-send or python, without kill internet connection or sms functionality?

 

Hi,

I did test this python script (mm-send-sms.py, I got it using git from the official repository) and I expected that, after running this script, I am not able to read sms information from the stick anymore. I tried to make it work with these steps, without unplug the stick:

• reset the usb device by software ( ioctl(fd, USBDEVFS_RESET, 0); )
• restart dbus/networkmanager, killall modemmanager,
• remove ehci_hcd and ohci_hcd, load ehci_hcd and ohci_hcd
   

All these steps (even apply all of them one by one) did not make sms function (I mean, read sms list) work again.

The only solution was to unplug the stick and plug it again, it went back to normal again.

I found a linux software on the ZTE usb stick, which can send/receive sms etc. while it is online, but I need a more general solution, which I can use it in my way. I use a really mini PC, which I would like to run as a server and control the gsm connectivity.

So, could somebody give me some hints, how to send sms using modem-manager, if possible? Probably a working example of the a{sv} structure to use the command line?

Thanks in advance,

Cheers, István