Sending SMSs from a Netduino
Started by andersborg, Sep 19 2011 08:39 PM
10 replies to this topic
#1
Posted 19 September 2011 - 08:39 PM
Here's a Netduino magically sending SMSs without there being any phone connected to it. The blog entry explains how.
http://abiro.com/w/2...ased-on-events/
Cheers,
Anders
#2
Posted 20 September 2011 - 05:37 AM
Nice wrapper! Do you know what the cost per sms works out to? I can't find their pricing I pay 0.026 U.S. dollars per sms from my current provider - but I'm always willing to hop.
#3
Posted 20 September 2011 - 08:21 AM
I checked sending from USA to USA or other countries, and it's 6 Euro cents, which is not competitive. I normally pay around 1.8 Euro cents, which is similar to what you mention. Actually Sweden is the only country where Infobip provides such low rates, so I feel slightly privileged.
For info, this is how the code looks like for sending SMSs to Infobip (without the credentials of course). As can be seen UrlEncode(Hashtable) makes it so much less error-prone, even though it probably kills the heap.
string Url = "http://api2.infobip....sendsms/plain";
Hashtable Args = new Hashtable();
Args["user"] = UserName;
Args["password"] = Password;
Args["GSM"] = CompactNumber(Destination);
Args["sender"] = Originator;
Args["Binary"] = Util.StrToHex(Text);
Args["Type"] = "LongSMS";
return HttpRequest.Perform(Url, HttpRequest.UrlEncode(Args));
Anders
#4
Posted 20 September 2011 - 08:28 AM
Thanks for checking. 1.8 Euro cents is a very good rate, lucky you
#5
Posted 14 January 2012 - 08:35 AM
There is also twilio.com, a web-based service were you can send and receive SMS messages for $.01 each. If you want to try some really crazy stuff, you can send and receive phone calls too. Netduino-based answering service anyone?
Regards,
Brett
Regards,
Brett
#6
Posted 14 January 2012 - 01:07 PM
Regarding Twilio: SMS for 1 cent is very low, but manageable as the receiver pays the cost for the SMS transmission. It would be impossible with such a price in Europe. Yet they indicate they will offer SMS för UK as well. Most likely not at that price.
I envy you Americans/Canadians .
Anders
#7
Posted 23 January 2012 - 02:45 PM
Is your class opensource?
As I'm testing out their service as of now... It cost 0.026€ for 1 sms which isn't bad
#8
Posted 23 January 2012 - 03:12 PM
Is your class opensource?
If you are asking me: It could be. It's not much code.
Cheers.
#9
Posted 23 January 2012 - 03:13 PM
well it would safe me some time rewriting it
Its up to you... you can also pm it.
#10
Posted 23 January 2012 - 03:26 PM
No problem. You'll get a ZIP via IM.
#11
Posted 29 January 2012 - 10:22 AM
Currently testing this out myself, would also like to look at the code if you could PM :-)
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