Huawei SMS Plugin

Code author: Shane Rees

This plugin sends pages recieved as a text message via a Huawei USB 3G modem.

This module will only work on Linux, and requires that the dongle be in “serial” mode. This may require that you use usbmodeswitch to adjust the device. Most Linux distributions do this automatically through udev.

This module requires that you have installed pyserial.

This plugin has some limitations:

• It will not create “concatenated” SMS for long messages – instead it will send as many messages as needed to display the entire message.
• It will not work with dongles that have their SIM card protected with a PIN without it being unlocked first (by another program).

Configuring the plugin

Configuration for the plugin is done through the pagerprinter.ini configuration file.

In order to activate the plugin, it must appear in the list of plugins.

[pagerprinter]
; Other plugins may be used as well, list them seperated by commas.
plugins = huaweisms

[huaweisms]
; This is a comma seperated list of phone numbers to send the SMS to.
; This can be in local format or international format.
to = 0491570110,+61491570156

; This is the serial port that the Huawei dongle uses.
; There are often 2 or 3 ports that the dongle assigns -- use the first of
; those.
port = /dev/ttyUSB0