Gateway FoxBox GT - User Guide
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1. 12 EVENTHANDLER EA A E EAA 12 4 3 1 CONTROL LED FOR VISUAL 2 44440222 13 43 CORT ROM FHE BUZZER a iaa ea 13 4 3 2 HOW TO ENABLE AN APPLICATION jisisscescocseessesessacesncesodeneacondavessneotessiee 13 4 3 3 HOW TO ENABLE XML FORMAT s ssseseeseseesesreressesersrssrrresresesresresrerrssrsreses 14 4 3 4 DEFAULT FUNCTIONS FOR INCOMING AND OUTGOING 5 5 14 4 3 5 HOW TO ENABLE THE SMS 14 4 3 6 HOW TO ENABLE THE 200 15 GUSTOM APPLIGATIONS 15 4 4 1 EXAMPLE CONTEST VIA 5 8 2 2 2 2 2 15 45 MYSQLMODUILE 17 AA A 18 A7 PATEK ME AA A A PEATS 19 AB SYSTEM amp LOGS E T R A A a 19 4 9 SMS FILE FORMA T a r AR a 19 V SMS ENGINE CONFIGURATION 21 INGOMING PRIORITY aa a a aa 21 BP LOG LEV EL a e E A E R A E 21 5 3 MESSAGE AUTOSPLI Tons SIE AVRE aaRS Eaei 21 MODEM SLEEP a 21 5 5 HOW TO ENABLE BLACK WHITE LISTS 21 5 6 SETUP OF THE PIN CODE OF THE 222. the message The INSERT is called by a script that parses the SMS File for extract values and pass them as arguments at a binary file that perform the real insert The parser is located in etc sms scripts mysmsd and the code is reported below DATE date Y m d 5 Extract data from the SMS file FROM etc procmail formail zx From lt 2 I sed s g TO etc procmail formail zx lt 2 SUBJECT etc procmail formail ZX Subject lt 2 SENT etc procmail formail zx Sent lt 827 Text is not used but could be used TEXT etc procmail formail I lt 2 CALL the binary etc sms mysms DATE FROM TO SUBJECT SENT TEXT For the SMS processing we used a Procmail utility called Formail More info are available on their website Pay attention to use this module you need to activate it into the Eventhandler 4 6 NETWORK From this screen you can edit TCP IP settings of the Gateway FoxBox GT Available fields are e IP address e Subnet mask e Broadcast address for example 192 168 7 255 e IP gateway for internet access this should be enabled for the use of SMS forwarding and other network functions e DNS servers After you have saved the new configuration you have to reboot the appliance to apply the configuration changes 4 7 DATE amp TIME SMS handling needs that date and time are correctly set up due to the indexing of the messages inside the database You can c
3. VI SOFTWARE FUNCTIONS DRAFT sssenitisssssntecersesitastesieusasdssdoguteseauravecativnsusredsensosieds 23 FREQUENTLY ASKED 24 SOFIWARE ser poles 24 7 2 BOOTING PROBLEMS ws 25 7 3 COMMUNICATION PROBLEMS wie 22 5 25 74 MANAGING THE 2 44 25 7 5 MISCELLANEOUS ian i a 26 76 MULETESIM FIX oie eiie aa 26 I INTRODUCTION Gateway Foxbox GT is a general purpose Linux server using a very powerful hardware so that it is possible to run more processes concurrently with high performances It provides advanced SMS and optionally MMS messaging services either stand alone or integrated with other applications SMS MMS to EMAIL or TCP IP gateway features monitoring solutions and much more 1 1 HOW TO CONNECT TO GATEWAY FOXBOX GT Gateway FoxBox LX800 is fully Web based This means that you can use a Web browser capable of XSL transformations to interact with it Supported browsers are e Mozilla Firefox e Netscape e Opera e Internet Explorer 6 e Google Chrome For a better experience we suggest you to use Mozilla Firefox version 3 6x or newer The default IP address is 192 168 0 98
4. gateway engine using Procmail and Fetchmail Clicking on the name you will access its configuration page Also here you need to restart in order to load the changes Signal quality This is the air carrier signal indicator It can be in one of these four positions No signal please check the link and position of your antenna Low if possible move your GSM antenna a better position e Good the antenna is in a good position and the box operations are normal e Very good the availability of the network is excellent This means that there is a very low loss rate on transmissions and these will result faster DBMS interface From this menu you can visualize the internal database it gives you an alternative way for handling lists of sent received failed messages Blacklist Whitelist Into blacklist you can find banned phone numbers for which sendings are disabled All numbers in this list should be entered followed by a carriage return in order to be correctly parsed To enable this feature you just have to remove the sharp symbol from the line blacklist mnt flash in the SMS engine configuration Whitelist instead gives you the ability to allow sendings only to numbers specified in this list To enable this feature you have to remove the sharp symbol from the line whitelist mnt flash in the SMS engine configuration Note that an SMS engine restart is needed only when you enable the f
5. of the SENT message It is only used if you sent a message successfully with status report enabled Each time that an event occurs the eventhandler is invoked The variables 1 and 2 are passed to the script that will execute the action defined in the if clauses 4 3 1 CONTROL LED FOR VISUAL ALARM You can control two of the three front LEDs available The first one on the left is the power LED you cannot control it The command line to make the two other LEDs user configurable is available in the file etc init d smstools If you want to use these LEDs when you send receive a message you have to add command lines to the eventhandler of the GSM modem concerned Have a look to such a configuration here on receiving a message you will have the 274 LED powered on for one second Put this code without in etc sms scripts eventhandlerGSMX with X the number of the modem TURN ON LED 2 WHEN RECEIVING A MESSAGE ON GSM1 MODEM if 1 RECEIVED then echo 1 gt sys class leds apu 2 brightness sleep 1 echo 0 gt sys class leds apu 2 brightness 4 3 1 CONTROL THE BUZZER You can use the same piece of code as above in the same file to control the buzzer on invoice and or reception of messages The command to use the buzzer is beep The complete syntax is beep f Frequency 1 Length You can choose the frequency in Herz and the sound duration in milliseconds 4 3 2 HOW TO ENABLE AN APPLIC
6. without modifying twice the eventhandler 4 2 2 MAIL TO SMS CONFIGURATION The forwarding function from email to SMS offers you the opportunity to divert all incoming email messages of a defined mailbox to the phone number specified in the From in the Body or in the Subject of the email Fields required in this case are e Server to poll IP address or fully qualified domain name of the mail server where the mailbos is hosted e Protocol which protocol is used by the server POP3 or IMAP e Username username to login the mailbox e Password password to login the mailbox Remember to activate the SMS gateway engine in the Control Panel To associate the receiver number you need to configure it into the machine through Procmail To enable this function you have to start the SMS Gateway from the Control Panel When the configuration is finished you can try the divert feature following this example You would like to send the text Test divert to the phone number 3490001122333 Open up your favorite email client and format the message as follows e Fill the field with the email address defined for divert e Inthe e mail subject type TOsms Inthe body of the email From Your Name To 393490001 122333 Test divert Now send the email and in a few seconds the message will be sent to the desired number Please check that the email format is configured as TEXT and not as HTML
7. ATION Enable this to activate custom events This is the custom script written by user for RX action if 1 RECEIVED then mnt flash root source custom custom_rx 2 fi This is the custom script written by user for TX action if 1 SENT then mnt flash root source custom custom_tx 2 fi This block contains the call to the scripts handled by Custom Application for incoming and outgoing messages 4 3 3 HOW TO ENABLE XML FORMAT Save messages in XML format if 1 RECEIVED then etc sms scripts sms2xml 1 2 3 fi With the activation of the block all incoming messages will be exported in XML format saved in the defined folder 4 3 4 DEFAULT FUNCTIONS FOR INCOMING AND OUTGOING SMS NEVER DISABLE THE FOLLOWING SCRIPT FOR MESSAGE RECEIVING if 1 RECEIVED then etc sms scripts parser php fi This block should always be active if you disable it incoming messages will not be visible from the web interface NEVER DISABLE THE FOLLOWING SCRIPT FOR MESSAGE OUTGOING if 1 SENT then etc sms scripts out php etc smsc_ctl 2 fi This block should always be active if you disable it outgoing messages will not be visible from the web interface Event on failed message if 1 FAILED then etc sms_fail 2 fi This block should always be active if you disable it failed messages will not be visible from the we
8. SE system that handles all background processes event handler and interaction between OS and the MODEM The core engine uses GSM 07 05 ETSI TS 300 585 and GSM 03 38 ETSI TS 100 900 specifications 2 User interface it is completely WEB BASED as described in the first chapter You have to use a browser with XSL parsing capabilities For a best use we suggest you Mozilla Firefox FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTION 7 1 SOFTWARE Enabling NTP crontab e and follow instructions Manage users login connect the Web interface in your Web browser type yourlP sqladmin user sqladmin password sqladmin on the left click on user Once you ve accessed the user table you can manage all the login for the Foxbox How do I know if my system is up to date Type the apt get update command once your Foxbox is connected to the internet Access the eventhandler type the command etc sms scripts Rembember that Foxbox is a Linux system if you are going to edit files under Windows be sure that you can save them using LF instead of Windows standard CRLF end of the line If SMS engine doesn t start you have a syntax error in the config file etc smsd conf Check log files in var log smsd log If messages are failing with error CMS 500 put the SIM card in a command handset and check if you are able to send messages with the SIM card If the error is 13 this means that the SIM card is not working Please refer to your carr
9. This feature is really useful for those who wants to give to their diagnostic systems email based a notification through SMS To configure the mail to SMS service please read our wiki online about how to configure the procmail service For any custom configuration please contact us 4 2 3 TEMPLATE CONFIGURATION From here you can apply your logo and company name e Company name change the name of the device Logo upload an image in jpeg format substituting the Foxbox logo The image size has to be close to 80x50 px 4 3 EVENTHANDLER The eventhandler is one of the most powerful features of the FoxBox From here you have full control on all the actions that the device performs while receiving or sending a message You can assign different meanings to LEDs disable incoming or outgoing messages etc To activate deactivate functionalities you need only to uncomment comment the little blocks enclosed between sharp symbol following the BASH syntax Take a look to the block that calls custom scripts on incoming messages uncommenting it as shown below you will activate the custom form of the case 1 As you can see in this if clause the RECEIVED event is selected You have to keep in mind that you need to pass arguments to the script you want to run that are e 1 the event identification that could be SENT RECEIVED FAILED or REPORT e 2 the full path to the SMS file handled by event in 1 e 3 the message id
10. Typing it on the address bar of the browser takes you to the GUI Graphic User Interface access page where you can log in with e Username admin e Password admin The system is case sensitive so it checks capital letters Be sure to write the credentials in the right way Another possibility is the TTY serial or SSH access which allows you to browse into the internal structure of the device The account in this case is e Username root e Password foxbox ATTENTION be careful when manipulating the system once logged as root you have full access to the file system as superuser wrong commands can lead to a system fault CONTROL FUNCTIONS 2 1 CONTROL PANEL From this window you can control the status and get access to the core of the system A set of utilities for diagnostic is available on the bottom of the page The console is organized in two frames 2 1 1 STATUS SMS engine Used to control the SMS engine the daemon which materially handles SMS and MMS giving to the system the power of send messages and receive messages This is obviously enabled by default Please note that stopping the engine will immediately hang the machine so all processes of sending and receiving will be halted Clicking on the name you will access its configuration page Remember that every setting changed on this configuration requires a restart of the engine to take effect SMS gateway Controls the email to SMS
11. USER GUIDE Gateway Foxbox GT Revision 1 0 For more informations please write to info highconnexion it Table of contents INTRODUGTION 20 Maden as 4 11 HOW TO CONNECT TO GATEWAY FOXBOX 2 00001 4 CONTROLEFUNGTIONS 22 i ihi iii 5 2I GON TRO LAP AINE EE 5 2AA STATUS i eiiiai i aiid 5 MESSAGE MANAGEMEN aariat 7 3 1 INBOX ss i 7 2 7 7 34r FAILED yy a a Ai a 7 7 Ip POLES eaea 8 Orie ADDRESS BOOK T NA 8 3 8 DISTRIBUTION LIST amp MULTIPLE 5 5 2 44400 9 SYSTEM MANAGEMEN ania aiao iia 10 41 USER MANAGEMENT siai e 10 4 2 SYSTEM PROFILE a A A E E E E 10 4 2 1 SMS TO MAIL CONEIGURB A ELON 10 4 2 2 MAIL 11 4 2 3
12. ary 8 bit binary data no text ringtones and data transmission SMSC phone number of the SMSC Report control if a status report is requested for the message Boolean value yes no Default is NO Autosplit control how to split messages Useful only for text messages not for binary split RECEIVED SMS MESSAGES Incoming From sender phone number From_SMSC the SMSC that sent the message Subject the logical name of the modem that received the message DEFAULT GSM1 Sent time when message was sent Received time when the message was received by SMS FoxBox You can use custom header lines for your applications If the unknown headers it will simply skip it An example of received message is From 3934947032XX From_SMSC 39565258552585 Sent 06 10 04 23 26 23 Received 06 10 04 23 26 29 Subject GSM1 Alphabet ISO Text of the short message An example of outgoing message is From SMSFoxBox To 3934947 Alphabet ISO Text of the short message V SMS ENGINE CONFIGURATION As shown in the chapter about the control panel by clicking on SMS engine you ll get access to the configuration panel of the core engine for incoming outgoing SMS Here you can configure some priority settings 5 1 INCOMING PRIORITY Enables the SMS receiving capability e 0 Disabled 1 Enabled e 2 Enabled with maximum priority to incoming messages 5 2 LOG LEVEL loglevel lt value gt This gives you
13. ave created a little parser using bin cat 1 grep SEARCH that means list the content of 1 that is the full path to the received message and match if it contains the pattern 5 the winner code Then we extract the phone number of the winner with bin cat 1 bin grep From awk print 277 this means list the content of 1 search the pattern From and take the number using awk print 2 column 2 At the end we proceed generating the notification message The code below will create a file with this content the destination To previous extracted number a blank line and the text of the notification FILE bin mktemp mnt flash spool outgoing send_XXXXXX echo To gt gt FILE echo gt gt FILE echo TEXT gt gt FILE The variable 1 contains the full PATH to the message and what is the format of the message in this file It is simply this one From Aaa To 390001122333 Alphabet ISO Text of the message 4 5 MYSQL MODULE The FoxBox internal database is in SQLite This engine offers very good performance and supports databases up to 2TB in size You could say Really good but my system is based on MySQL this is not a matter with MySQL module The main purpose of this module is to grant you the capability to automatically divert all of your messages to your favorite database As all other processes also this one is controlled by the main eventhandler The co
14. b interface 4 3 5 HOW TO ENABLE THE SMS GATEWAY SMS TO MAIL etc mailsend smstomail 2 1 fi Event on sent message if 1 SENT then etc mailsend smstomail 2 1 fi Event on failed message if 1 FAILED then this send the failed message to a mail address etc mailsend smsfailmail 2 1 This block enables the SMS to email forward function for incoming outgoing and failed messages as declared in the variable 1 Rif 4 2 1 How to configure the forward SMS to Email 4 3 6 HOW TO ENABLE THE MYSQL MODULE this is the database mysql backend if 1 RECEIVED then etc sms scripts mysmsd 1 2 3 fi This block enables the MySQL module 4 4 CUSTOM APPLICATIONS From this panel you extendthe functions with your own applications In the two text fields you can link your program to incoming see 4 3 Eventhandler received or sent messages By default the system is configured for executing a BASH script in shell bin sh If you would like to use PHP scripting simply change the header declaration with bin php Obviously you can also write C or C applications and run it from here Foxbox is equipped with a complete root toolkit and compiler 4 4 1 EXAMPLE OF CONTEST VIA SMS Now is time to proceed with a practical example like to create a game a little example of a lottery We would like people s
15. beginning of the line Then add a line pin xxxx where xxxx is the PIN code of the SIM If SMS Gateway function doesn t filter your emails check etc procmailrc file Refer the online wiki for syntax and functions 7 4 MANAGING THE FOXBOX SYSTEM Blocking the reception of incoming messages in the etc smsd conf file add the line specify incoming 0 This way the Foxbox is unable to recieve incoming messages but they are not blocked You have to ask your SIM provider if you want to block the whole incoming traffic on your SIM card If you try to send a message through the API with a command line like http FOXBOX_IP_ADDR source send_sms php username yourusername amp pwd yourpw d amp from yourusername amp nphone 1234567890 amp testo thetextofyoursms You may have a bug that will open a popup asking you to enter your username and password You can bypass this by adding admin admin as shown below admin admin http FOXBOX_IP_ADDR source send_sms php username yourusername amp pwd yourpwd amp from yourusername amp nphone 1234567890 amp testo thetextofyoursms If you want to remove any kind of authentication on sending API open file mnt flash root send_sms php and comment with the include auth_01 php entry 7 5 MISCELLANEOUS The smsd process SMS Daemon is the process that enables the GSM communication As it is a closed loop this process is running all time as the SMS services a
16. control to the log verbosity The supported range is from 0 to 7 The default value is 5 Use level 7 for debugging Logfile is var log smsd_log 5 3 MESSAGE AUTOSPLIT The range supported is from 0 to 3 It controls how messages longer than 160 characters are split e 0 Disabled e 1 Enabled no part number e 2 Enabled text numbers e 3 Enabled concatenated format not supported by some phones 5 4 MODEM SLEEP Blocktime if the modem hags it sleeps for the time specified in seconds Errorsleeptime if an error occurred the modem sleeps for the time specified in seconds 5 5 HOW TO ENABLE BLACK WHITE LISTS You can enable those lists in the etc smsd conf file Blacklist lt PATH TO THE LIST gt Whitelist lt PATH TO THE LIST gt 5 6 SETUP OF THE PIN CODE OF THE SIM You can use a SIM card protected by a PIN code therefore it is not needed you have to specify the PIN code in the etc smsd conf file pin 0000 remove the sharp and put you SIM PIN to enable the security code check this can slow down receiving speed SOFTWARE FUNCTIONS DRAFT ore Engine nterfaces vents MESSAGE Se Vodafone DATA Transfromation 5 SMS to MAIL Internal Module Storage is fed WEB Interface ystem Config quau E 988 78 GSM 1 Adinin Operator Viewer Gateway FoxBox GT s software is based on two main contests 1 Core engine this is the BA
17. de below is the call to the module from event handler and it is a portion of it this is the database mysql backend if 1 RECEIVED then etc sms scripts mysmsd 1 2 3 To activate deactivate the module you have to remember to remove add the sharp character as always The configuration is fully Web based and you can access it by clicking on MySQL button Below is listed all that you need to get a complete setup e A MySQL socket listening on the default port on your server with permission set up to accept incoming connection from the IP of the Foxbox e The IP hostname of your MySQL Server e The username to access the table with enough permission to perform SELECT and INSERT e The password you set up for the user remember to verify password style e The name of database where you have to perform the INSERT query You can choose to store messages only on MySQL or on both databases internal SQLite and MySQL After you finished filling up required fields choose Save Configuration apply changes Note that your MySQL Database should contain a table named messages with the following fields times froms tos subject sent texts The insert will populate these fields with timestamp of when the message was received by FoxBox the sender phone number the receiver phone numbers the logical name of the modem that received the message the timestamp when message was sent and the text of
18. eature while every changing in lists will be loaded in realtime see 5 5 How to enable black white Lists MESSAGE MANAGEMENT 3 1 INBOX In this page are listed all the messages from the current user s incoming queue Ref 4 1 Users management Each SMS is indexed by the system for easy search capabilities and has these fields e From the sender e From_SMSC the Short Message Service Center SMSC e Sent Date and time of the message e Received Date and time the message was received by the system e Subject Logical name of the modem device receiving the message GSM1 and GSM2 refers to the two internal GSM modems inside the Foxbox GT e Alphabet Type of alphabet used to encode the message e Text of the message The system will continuously receive messages in background and a counter on the main menu displays the presence of one or more unread messages It is possible to disable the reception of SMS in order to obtain higher sending rates The main queue owned by users of level Operator and Viewer is named default if you would like to link users to different queues look to the Users Management Rif 4 1 Users Management Instead Admin users works on the queue called history 3 2 SENT In this page are listed all sent SMS messages 3 3 OUTGOING In this page are listed all messages on outgoing queue during the sending phase but not already charged by the modem 3 4 FAILED In th
19. end SMS messages to the number of Gateway FoxBox LX800 typing in the text a CODE and then we want to answer to the winner with an SMS notification Analysis of the problem To create this application we need to control the text of each incoming message In case the message has the winning code we need to extract the phone number of the winner and send an SMS with the notification to it This is shell script that performs all these actions bin sh This is a sample script for custom RX action PURPOSE The script searches a code inside an incoming message and if the code is matched replies with the massage You WIN Search the code 1223456 inside the SMS message CODE that we want to search SEARCH 123456 Text message that we want to send TEXT You WIN CODE bin cat 1 grep SEARCH if code is not empty reply with the message You WIN if CODE S SEARCH J then I need to extract the phone number to send the reply NUMB bin cat 1 bin grep From lawk print 2 Now I generate the file for outgoing queue FILE bin mktemp mnt flash spool outgoing send_XXXXXX echo To NUMB gt gt FILE echo gt gt FILE echo TEXT gt gt FILE fi To try this script copy and paste it inside the form Custom application applied to received items Then send a message to the device with code 123456 and you will win As you see in this example we h
20. feature is active Note that on the website there are plugins to send to a CSV list instead than selecting contacts from address book IV SYSTEM MANAGEMENT 4 1 USER MANAGEMENT Gateway FoxBox GT is a multi users system with access privileges With User profiles you can configure users and grant to each one a dedicated incoming message queue The Admin user is a root user it can perform every setting of the box and create other users Then we have other two levels the Operator can handle incoming and outgoing messages but it doesn t have setup capabilities and the Viewer can only view incoming messages and perform basic operations like send messages as defined in black white lists For each user the Admin could specify a different incoming queue so new users will work on a dedicated environment without interfere with others or link it to the default queue shared by other users Note that only the Admin can access historical queue where all incoming messages are stored User attributes are e Name username for login e Password password for login e Type level of the user Admin Operator Viewer e Queue queue space definition Note that if you have defined a custom queue for a user and you delete it you will delete also the associated database with its contact Only the default and the historical queues cannot be deleted 4 2 SYSTEM PROFILE This menu gives you the full control on graphic tem
21. hoose to set Date amp Time manually or use a network time server with your local time settings 4 8 SYSTEM amp LOGS This is a summary of your system overall status From here you can see e Used RAM memory e Used Flash memory e System details e Handle SQLite databases using the internal manager as PHPmyAdmin but for SQLite e View logs of procmail sms engine Ref 5 1 LOG level and verbosity 4 9 SMS FILE FORMAT The SMS file format is a text file composed of two parts e The header e The message These two parts are separated by a carriage return An easy SMS example is From SMSFoxBox 3934947 Alphabet ISO Text of the short message Each header line has a meaning as shown below GENERIC HEADERS e From sender identification useful for logged in user identification outgoing messages e To receiver phone numbers the number should be specified in international format without the e Flash if you set this value to yes the message will appear directly on the phone display without asking for open it up if supported by mobile phone e Alphabet specify the character SET used in the SMS text gt ISO LATIN ANSI 8 bit character set maximum of 160 characters with autosplit DEFAULT VALUE gt GSM 7 bit character set as referred GSM specification maximum of 160 characters with autosplit gt UCS UCS2 character set maximum of 70 characters with autosplit gt Bin
22. ier for support If you see failed messages with error no destination change in etc smsd conf trust_outgoing yes in no If you get insmod led ko errors restarting SMS Daemon you can safely ignore it these are just warnings If you want to disable one modem and use just one SIM card comment with in the etc smsd conf file the following entries providers GSMX where X is the number of your modem queues GSMX where X is the number of your modem And remove the GSMX entry from devices list Restart the SMS Daemon to apply changes 7 2 BOOTING PROBLEMS Foxbox GT launch fsck dev sdal command and repair the filesystem solves many issues ont the EXT4 file system You have to be connected with the DB9 serial cable when password will be required for maintenance type foxbox If you have trouble connecting your Foxbox with PuTTY and the 9 serial cable try to use 115200 bauds 8 bits N 1 parameters 7 3 COMMUNICATION PROBLEMS EmailToSMS in case of trouble check from the Web interface if the SMS Gateway is ON you can also check the mail process by typing in the console ps ax grep fetchmail When you are sending an SMS message through the Web interface use phone numbers with the international prefix without the We suggest you to use SIM cards not protected by a PIN code In the opposit case you have to edit the etc smsd conf file logged as root Add a sharp at the
23. is page are listed all SMS messages skipped for errors after three sending attempts 3 5 WRITE NEW e From here you can send new SMS messages You just have to insert the required data by filling the form From by default is the user currently logged in note that the sender that will be seen by the receiver is just the phone number of the SIM card into the GSM modem 3 6 used for sending the message For custom senders please visit our website To is the receiver s phone number in international format without the leading For example 39XXXXXXXXXX for an Italian phone number You can also select contact or a list of contacts from the address book see 3 7 Address book Text the text of the message If autosplit is enabled by default you can send up to 1836 characters as a concatenated SMS Flash with this feature the message appears directly on the receiver s phone display but it is not saved in its memory Note that most of the phones support this feature but not all POLLS Polls are a simple way to obtain fast and custom statistics on the contents of incoming messages through the specification of a list of patterns Every time an SMS message contains one of these patterns the counter for the poll is incremented and a graph with percentage is displayed To add remove pattern subjects simply click on List poll subjects 3 7 ADDRESS BOOK This is a list of contacts and groups useful for dis
24. plate language selection and on gateway email to SMS and SMS to email functions 4 2 1 SMS TO MAIL CONFIGURATION From here you can specify the SMTP server for SMS forwarding to a Mailbox The fields in details are e Sender domain it is the domain of the sender e SMTP IP address or fully qualified domain name of the SMTP server to use it is possible to use the embedded Postfix using parameters given on the Web interface e Sender address it is the mail address that will appear as sender e Destinations it is the list of the receivers of the forwarded messages e Custom subject if you want you can define an ad hoc subject e Forwarding of SENT and RECEIVED messages here you can decide if you want to forward this kind of messages e Forwarding of FAILED messages same as before for failed messages e Authorization type on SMTP server here you specify the type of authorization needed by your SMTP server look on the Interface page of the Web interface for possible values e Username for login to SMTP server username for SMTP server e Password for login to SMTP server password for SMTP server SMTP server port port number of the SMTP service on server To enable this feature you have to remove the sharp in the Eventhandler see 4 3 5 How to enable the SMS gateway The two choices Activate forwarding have been added just to make you able to temporarily disable the forwarding in case you need it
25. re enabled and is using up to a whole CPU core between 90 to 100 of the CPU core If a storage device on your Foxbox breaks and becomes unusable please send us an email with the whole description of your product OS version software used purchase date etc This way we will look in our database to provide you a download link of the more suitable OS software you need to use your Foxbox system In the Foxbox GT Gateway system SMS channels are independant This way you can configure channels independantly or not to manage data flows through your channels 7 6 MULTI SIM FIX Put inside etc udev rules d 70 persistent SUBSYSTEM tty SUBSYSTEMS usb ATTRS bInterfaceClass ff ATTRS bInterfaceSubClass 01 ATTRS bInterfaceProtocol 01 ATTRS bInterfaceNumber 02 SYMLINK MSATA HUAWEl ENV GENERATED 1 SUBSYSTEM tty SUBSYSTEMS usb ATTRS bInterfaceClass ff ATTRS bInterfaceSubClass ff ATTRS bInterfaceProtocol ff ATTRS bInterfaceNumber 00 SYMLINK MSATA NOVATEL ENV GENERATED 1 Change in your etc smsd conf ttyUSBO MSATA HUAWEI ttyUSB1 in MSATA NOVATEL reboot
26. tribution links From here you can choose between Add a new contact Select single and multiple contacts Delete a contact Edit contact Search for contacts Import CSV files For each entry you have Name name of the contact Phone phone number of the contact in international format without the leading for example for an Italian phone number Group Notes useful to identify a group for multiple sends and distribution lists How many times option how many times every message will be sent to the contact 1 by default To add a contact to the Address Book select Add new contact from the menu An alternative is to load group of new contacts from a CSV file with every line separated from other with a carriage return using the format name phone_num To send a message to a single contact click on his name automatically the phone number will populate the To field of the send message form You can also check a group of contacts and with Send to all they will be all inserted into the To field like a dynamic distribution list 3 8 DISTRIBUTION LIST amp MULTIPLE SENDINGS For multiple sendings usually you have to launch a search on the Group Notes field After you have obtained the desired list check those contacts and click on Send to all as said before to start SMS sending process In the To field the tag selected group will be displayed to show this
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