Hi Kirk,
I’m sorry but I can’t find a record of us working together before (maybe you were working with Jeff Kline – you have some cases in our Portal with him).
Neither your initial comments or my reply, in today’s thread, say anything about the iSMS not working when a log file becomes full. Are you having a failure?
Emailing the logs is part of a maintenance function. If you do not want to receive the periodic emails – “delete” the “Log File Full” item in the “Send Email Notification for” column in the Administration menu. Then when the log file becomes full, it gets renamed and backed up locally in the /var/log/ folder on the iSMS server. Then after 3 cycles of it being backed up/renamed – it gets deleted.
I’m not sure what all the variables are to the msgid number that is generated by our send API.
I know if you default the box it will start over.
I goes up to at least 99999.
A system reboot/restart does not cause the number to start over.
If your APP uses (submits to more than one) iSMS server, then Yes, you will have to track separately. The msgid generated by each iSMS server is independent of the other server.
There is an alternative to this. You can utilize our “Load Balancing” feature – however it’ really not a balancing feature. It’s more of load sharing when I get too busy feature. The current online User Guide is quite accurate with it’s description of the feature. You only have to submit to one unit, but you have no control over which unit is used to send out the message.
I’ll look into the msgid rollover question more and get back to you.
Sincerely
Jeff Blees
Engineering Technician
Got an 8-port and I did go in and disable all but the first one, just like you originally told me when I bought it. The log comes once a week. I didn’t know it that would prevent the modem from working if the log filled up. Numbers less than ten make sense…I forgot about Short Codes. My app checks length anyway. What about the apimsgid the modem assigns, does this ever start over? What if I have two devices? Will I need to track per device then ID?
Hi,
I search an product to receive 6 SMS/Second .
Did you know if MULTI-TECH product in France could receive 6 SMS / Second ?
Could i use JAVA SMSLIB API on LINUX Server ?
Regards
Philippe
Hello,
I’ve just updated, I have 1.31 now I have 1.47 firmware.
Sometimes the API takes too long to detect the connection, and I do not have the signal LEDs on, and in admin web page I have “Disabled – SIM Inactive” in SIM Status.
But if I go to telnet and type AT+CSQ it replay +CSQ: 22,0.
Whats wrong?
Thanks,
JS
Hello Yemane,
We do not test with Kannel. Regardless of which Software & or platform you are trying to use, all have to communicate the same way with the iSMS SMS Servers (via API based commands).
Here is a link to various pieces of sample code.
https://webfiles.multitech.com/engineering/sample-code/sms-finder/
Our API commands start on page 74 of the User Guide.
http://www.multitech.com/en_US/DOCUMENTS/Collateral/manuals/S000461B.pdf
Sincerely
Jeff Blees
Engineering Technician
Hello Raza,
The iSMS is compatible with any software/application that can utilize/conform to the specific API commands implemented by the iSMS SMS Server.
Please review our API Appendix starting on page 74.
http://www.multitech.com/en_US/DOCUMENTS/Collateral/manuals/S000461B.pdf Check
SMSlib needs to submit messages to us, via HTTP, following our documented syntax.
Sincerely
Jeff Blees
Engineering Technician
Hi David,
If you have only 1 SIM in the SF400 – are the other 3 ports disabled? The “Status” check box for each port without a SIM card needs to be unchecked (this is found in the “cellular modem” setup page within the Network Setup menu).
If you have not already, please open a case in our support portal. http://www.multitech.com/en_US/SUPPORT/
The iSMS does not have a setting that dis-allows the sending of duplicate messages. I know from testing it can send duplicate messages over and over.
What is the contents of the HTTP Send API Live Log (it’s a log of what you submit to us) and what is the contents of the “SMS Live Log” (a per port log of how our SMS server controls/utilizes the modem)?
Even though both are T-Mobile SIMs, the problem could still be with one SIM? Have you tried swapping the SIM cards around?
What version of firmware is the SF400 running?
Is the failure all the time – or does it follow the contents of the SMS?
Can you send a simple short sms (twice in a row) that does not contain any blank lines like “Hi, this is a test.”
Can you send a simple sms via our Send SMS GUI menu, twice in a row?
Sincerely
Jeff Blees
Engineering Technician
Thanks Jeff. I have been looking at the admin guide and appendices but will take another look. i beleive that the machine i was working on is at least part of my issue. i just built a VM to do testing with and can at least send a message via the perl script now…so i am part way there . still getting authentication issues trying to query the iSMS status even thought the user works.
when i said i was able to send messages via the browser, what i did was take the URL that the script was using and just past it in to the browser. not using the UI.
pretty sure that I have the send API properly configured. followed the manual.
i will take a look at those sample scripts that you put in there.
thanks for your help.
matt
Hi Matt,
Have you reviewed our Perl examples and how to found at:
https://webfiles.multitech.com/engineering/sample-code/sms-finder/perl/
? If not, please do.
When you say “I am able to send messages straight from a browser, but…” – do you mean using a browser to access the iSMS server on port 80 and navigating our menus to send with?
How do you have all of the options set in the “SMS API” menu (found in the SMS Services menu)?
Have you reviewed the API appendix in the administrators user guide (starting on page 74)?
http://www.multitech.com/en_US/DOCUMENTS/Families/MultiModemiSMS/manuals.aspx
Lots of customer’s are using Perl scripts to send out text messages through iSMS server.
Sincerely
Jeff Blees
Engineering Technician
Thank you Steve,
but what is the meanings of the “strange” characters I can see in the first 7 bytes ?
For example, each part of a long message is sent in XML as follows (the YYY… sequence is the text body part of the text I sent):
“é@oHt¿£YYYYYYYYY”
but the first 7 characters ? Apart from different values, it seems that the rules for the UDH reported from wiki should fit, at least at a semantical level.
Thanks again
The iSMS doesn’t support PDU mode, so we don’t pass the PDU headers to the receive API. We only pass the message contents. So a three part message will appear as three separate messages.
Hi,
I use a servlet to receive the XML POST of the Receive API.
In case of Concatenated SMS I receive 7 bytes headers which only in part adheres to the rules at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concatenated_SMS
More precisely, the bytes received ar (for a 3 parts message):
1st msg: E9 40 6F 28 31 20 40
2nd msg: E9 40 6F 28 31 A1 40
3rd msg: E9 40 6F 28 31 BF 40
The only rules matched as reported by wiki are:
“Field 4” is the same for all parts.
The “Field 5” should contain the total number of parts, but it seems a bit too much for 3 message parts.
The “Field 6” is the only variable parts, but should evaluate from 1 to N (where N is the number of parts) while in my tests it seems to be random.
Where am I wrong ? Cold you please help me ?
Thanks
Francesco
Hi Anthony,
Sorry for the delayed response (I have been out sick).
Regarding SMS messages sent by the iSMS server (your previous question regarded messages received) – they are kept in one database, regardless of which port it was sent out on. This would be the “Outbox” data base in the SMS Services menu. We do not generate a text file of the numbers we’ve sent to.
As you submit messages for sending (via our API), you get back a MsgID number for each submitted message. You can then query for the status of that MsgID number – to learn if we successfully transmitted the SMS to Telco or not.
Sincerely
Jeff Blees
Engineering Technician
There is no provision for setting the UDH (User Data Header) of an SMS through the iSMS API at this time. Sorry.
Hi,
In order to be able to send notifications to a J2ME application I need to be able to send an sms to a specific port. I can prepare a binary sms with the appropriate UDH to achieve this – the question is, can I send it through the send api ? Would setting enc=2 and sending the raw bytes in hex work ?
Thanks,
Veso
Hi Steve !
We have the trouble but in the other way : for outgoing messages.
With the 1.4 version we had the SF100 hanging to sens sms several times … without reasons … (well may be SFR sometimes have troubles I don’t know .. so we put the option of rerecording to the provider every 24H, but we have done that only today ..).
So this morning, we sent different SMS, but suddently one sms stayed blocked in status 2 (status with querymsg api)
Then after the following msgs were in status 3 …
Nothing was sent and nothing received on the phones….
So we soft rebooted the SF100 and then the sending was again possible… (with a reset of the counter (Should be a good option not to reset the counter every reboot because in my case I use the ID in my Database for control …) ).
BUT the 2 messages with the bad status were not resended automatically …
Nothing was in the log (when i check via the admin console) in the error section ….
So it’s a little bit annoying because here we had 2 ‘test’ messages in error but if we send a mailing with 5000 sms and suddently the process stop … it will be very hard to resend correctly …
So how the SF100 could handle that pb ?
Thanks,
Brian
Hello, were looking at the MultiModem iSMS devices for one of our projects, and would want to find out how the device handles incomming SMS messages when communications to the API server is down. Does it buffer the messages in itself (the device being a integrated server, database and modem)? Could it forward the messages to a database server too?
The setup were planning is, that the Multimodem sits in a remote office in a remote location, and forwards the sms to a server that is situated elsewhere. Comms go offline from the location where the Multimodem is located, SMS messages keeps coming in, does it buffer it while waiting for the comms to come back on line or do we lose the messages.
how is this funtionality enabled? any documentation available detailing this functionality/feature?
Thanks
Check out from page 67 of the iSMS Administrators guide which describes our HTTP API for sending SMS: http://www.multitech.com/en_US/DOCUMENTS/Collateral/manuals/S000461A.pdf
It can be done from any OS as long as your application can do HTTP.
I would like to be able to connect an SMS Server to my IBM iSeries Server. Your range of products in this area seem quite suitable for use on a MS Windows or Unix platform, but what about IBM’s OS/400? The API’s mentioned in the manual have the look of a Windows application. What I believe I need is a specification of the interface protocol that would enable an OS/400 API to be developed making your product available to the iSeries user community. Or, perhaps you know of someone who has already developed an OS/400 API and has it for sale?
Many thanks
Jeff Bull
Hi everybody,
sorry for my English !!
I have troubles to send SMS (Carrier SFR France) with accentuated characters, like eacute, c cedilla ecirc euro sign …
If i check extended ascii, most of the phones can’t receive the characters .. The iphone for example receive nothing, some nokia : can’t open msg, motorola : empty …
If I unchek that’s much better but i don’t have all chars !!!
(this is for sending).
In reception, when enabling extended most of the messages are received coded (seems to be hexa … ).
I’m checking the trouble with Jeff from the support but may be some of you have solutions ;o)
Coding is Iso-8859-1 but on some blogs they speak about 8859-15 or utf8 possibility …
I’ve send using the SF100 menu or the Http Api.
So if someone has an idea, you’re welcome !!!
(by the way how do we use the spanned sms parameters that it is question in the sendmsg proc).
In French : Bonjour, je rencontre des prb pour envoyer mes SMS via SFR, et ce lorsque je tente d’utiliser des caracteres style cedille accent circonflexe, euro etc … 8859-1 extended n’est pas recu par la plupart des tel …
Si qq a une idee !!
Merci.
Thanks,
Yours
Brian
Hi
I am sending as SMS through ur Http Api Where I am getting ID like This ID=64 and Id =65 Like that. and I didnot receive any Error Code
Is it mean Message Send Successfully .All the messages in the OutBox will Be send successfully to That Mobile NUmbers Or Not?
Please clarify my doubts REgarding That
REgards
Suresh
HI
we are using MultimodemISms at our Remote Server in US. by using u r Http Api I am sending the mobile number which is an Indian subscriber. But i didnt get a message to my number
Regards
Suresh
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