Send and Receive SMS from a django app

[Alessandro Ronchi]

Is it possible with linux and django to send and receive data from SMS from a django APP? Did anyone managed to do that?

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[Daniel Hilton]

<point>
http://www.rapidsms.org/
</point>

2010/1/13 Alessandro Ronchi <alessand...@soasi.com>:

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[jenlu]

RapidSMS is - if I can read it correctly - basically a GSM modem hw
and
some django stuff around it. So you install it on your hw and then
send your own SMS. Still, sort of 'old-school' ;-)

We have done it by interfacing our django app towards an SMS GW
provider
(actually both SMS, MMS and sending/recieving). There are several out
there and the trick will be to find someone with a decent priceplan
that
fits your traffic volume and that can send out SMS in the region you
want to send them in. This later part is especially important if you
want
the reciever to reply back or issue some type of commands - then you
want
them to send to a local e.164 number and not some out-of-country
(both expensive and they will be reluctant to do it).

For the nordic region (Sweden, Norway...) you can contact www.imez.se.
They actually have a decent priceplan all over europe if you only want
to send out SMS. To recieve you will get a local swedish number to.

mvh / Jens

On 13 Jan, 13:55, Daniel Hilton <daniel.hil...@gmail.com> wrote:
> <point>
>      http://www.rapidsms.org/
> </point>

[jenlu]

[Tran Cao Thai]

Wow, there is an answer after 2 mins. This community really rocks :D

[tback]

Hi Alessandro,

yes, it's possible to send sms messages (I use this myself every day)
and to receive sms messages (that's an assumption).
The easiest way is through a sms gateway.
http://www.celltrust.com/ is a provider that advertisises two way
messaging.

cheers, Till

On Jan 13, 1:53 pm, Alessandro Ronchi <alessandro.ron...@soasi.com>
wrote:

[Alessandro Ronchi]

On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 2:29 PM, tback <ti...@backha.us> wrote:

Hi Alessandro,

yes, it's possible to send sms messages (I use this myself every day)
and to receive sms messages (that's an assumption).
The easiest way is through a sms gateway.
http://www.celltrust.com/ is a provider that advertisises two way

I cannot use an SMS gateway for my app (I must use a SIM and an hardware modem).

Does RapidSMS include SMS receiving?

Thanks in advance.

[Daniel Hilton]

2010/1/14 Alessandro Ronchi <alessand...@soasi.com>:

>
>
> On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 2:29 PM, tback <ti...@backha.us> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Alessandro,
>>
>> yes, it's possible to send sms messages (I use this myself every day)
>> and to receive sms messages (that's an assumption).
>> The easiest way is through a sms gateway.
>> http://www.celltrust.com/ is a provider that advertisises two way
>
> I cannot use an SMS gateway for my app (I must use a SIM and an hardware
> modem).
>
> Does RapidSMS include SMS receiving?
>
> Thanks in advance.

Yep take a look at this:

http://www.rapidsms.org/code/architecture/

You'll need a GSM modem though.

Cheers,
Dan

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>

[Alessandro Ronchi]

On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 12:26 PM, Daniel Hilton <daniel...@gmail.com> wrote:

You'll need a GSM modem though.

Perfect!

Are all RSR232 GSM modems compatible with pygsm, or everyone needs a proprietary or different library to be used?

[Chris Withers]

Alessandro Ronchi wrote:
> I cannot use an SMS gateway for my app (I must use a SIM and an hardware
> modem).

Why? This is not a sane requirement for a web app...

Chris

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[Alessandro Ronchi]

On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 7:18 PM, Chris Withers <ch...@simplistix.co.uk> wrote:

Alessandro Ronchi wrote:

I cannot use an SMS gateway for my app (I must use a SIM and an hardware modem).

Why? This is not a sane requirement for a web app...

Chris

Because of the number of the SMS I must write. I need a web app that makes intense use of SMS without any external dependences (like Unicef app).

[Chris Withers]

Alessandro Ronchi wrote:
>
> Because of the number of the SMS I must write. I need a web app that
> makes intense use of SMS without any external dependences (like Unicef
> app).

If you want to send a *lot* of sms'es then you definitely want to be
using a gatway sending service rather than trying to rack up a load of
cell phones and writing to them...