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Re: [Announce] SMScon (control your device with SMS)

I don't know much about pypacker, but I think yout
tar.gz misses the toplevel directory.
there is no smscon directory in your
tar.gz only debian and src7(?)

Re: [Announce] SMScon (control your device with SMS)

hi
sorry to waste your time with this question..
ive installed smscon and the editor from the extras-testing repository, version 0.5-9 configured it to suit my needs and test functions work fine
(now for the silly part)

how do you actually use it i.e. how do i send commands to it. i tried from the number ive saved and nothing happens..

appreatiate any help
thanks

Re: [Announce] SMScon (control your device with SMS)

Hey folks, just tried this...looks great. It is possible that the 0.59 version only sends the test email from the editor gui? I can receive only these it seems, while I've tried both location and picture tests...the smscon -log shows no error, btw.

Thanks!

Re: [Announce] SMScon (control your device with SMS)

People most likelly already asked for this before, consider it my "+1"

Could you please add a parallel (and optionally alternate) mode of communication using email (prefferably compatible with gmail), with options to try gprs as well as looking for open (and closed but with known password) WiFi connections? This way even with a SIM with no credits or even without any SIM at all, we can still reach our precious :)

Re: [Announce] SMScon (control your device with SMS)

smscon is not working for me.

Code:

/home/user # smscon -start

/bin/sh: smscon: not found

/home/user # /opt/smscon/smscon -start

Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "/opt/smscon/smscon", line 14, in <module>

    from Crypto.Cipher import AES

ImportError: No module named Crypto.Cipher

Re: [Announce] SMScon (control your device with SMS)

Quote:

Originally Posted by dhanurdhar (Post 889932)

...
how do you actually use it i.e. how do i send commands to it. i tried from the number ive saved and nothing happens..
...

Did you check if it is running?
Please read the wiki and let us know what you dont understand. It will help us to improve too.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Zas (Post 890046)

smscon is not working for me.

Code:

/home/user # smscon -start

/bin/sh: smscon: not found

/home/user # /opt/smscon/smscon -start

Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "/opt/smscon/smscon", line 14, in <module>

    from Crypto.Cipher import AES

ImportError: No module named Crypto.Cipher

How did you install. Did you use dpkg directly or you have use the application manager?

Quote:

Originally Posted by TiagoTiago (Post 890037)

...
Could you please add a parallel (and optionally alternate) mode of communication using email (prefferably compatible with gmail), with options to try gprs as well as looking for open (and closed but with known password) WiFi connections? This way even with a SIM with no credits or even without any SIM at all, we can still reach our precious :)

Could you please elaborate a little bit more?
The replies already can be send to a gmail address if you choose that.
See the wiki for the options available if you haven't already.

Re: [Announce] SMScon (control your device with SMS)

I mean sending commands to the device by email, just like how it can be done via SMS

edit: ideally it should have it's own email system, somthing that doesn't show in the regular email program nor triggers the new message notification behavior (sound, status LED etc)

Re: [Announce] SMScon (control your device with SMS)

Quote:

Originally Posted by TiagoTiago (Post 890136)

OK, it is now clear to me now what you meant. Thanks.

In my opinion it is equal and less consuming of resources to what has already been proposed. That is, check at some intervals a site (e.g. a blog) for a specific change in a page that the user specified and is under his control.

I think it is a feature which we should try to pursuit separately first and later integrate to SMSCON, but it is up to digitalvoid.

Re: [Announce] SMScon (control your device with SMS)

Quote:

Originally Posted by Saturn (Post 890116)

How did you install. Did you use dpkg directly or you have use the application manager?

I installed with apt-get install smscon. dpkg reports version 0.5-9.

Re: [Announce] SMScon (control your device with SMS)

Quote:

Originally Posted by Zas (Post 890477)

I installed with apt-get install smscon. dpkg reports version 0.5-9.

Did you see any errors?

apt-get should have pulled the python-crypto library automatically.