I think we have some beta firmware with SMS capability that you can test with. We’d love to have your feedback on those. Please contact the support team for a trial.
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GReetings - I too need an SMS solution on my PepWave BR1 mini, via RS232, send and receive. We have an autistic family member that does not always answer his phone or txt msgs. I have a scrolling LED display that prints messages located above his bedroom window. I “had” a web based app hosted on Raspberry Pi that extracted a textual message and sent it to the LED display, and, sent to a RSSI feed for text to speech file which was downloaded to the Pi and played on the Aux input of a small radio. He could read the message and hear it as well. It was also hooked to the alarm system to send e-mails to my verizon phone. Since I upgraded the MBR900 to the Max BR1 mini, It required 4g and that was the end of a static IP Address that I enjoyed with the 3g USB card… I prefer to have SMS capability in the PepWave which will make things so much easier. I would pay extra for that feature. As it is now, I may have to cough up $500 for a dedicated IP address from Verizon. As Midowling states, there is a plethora of uses for SMS feature built into the router. Please consider me a candidate for the beta test. I’ve just upgraded firmware to 7.1.1. Thank you for your consideration. p.s. If the beta SW were to “brick” the Pepwave, I would not hold Peplink responsible and would purchase a new one. SMS via RS232 is important to my wife and I to know we are getting messages through to her son while we are away from the house.
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Hello, Is it possible to have access to the beta firmware with the SMS capabilities for testing purpose?
Thanks
Emil
Please open a support ticket here. We can work on the test firmware using the support ticket.
Please ATTN the ticket to sitloongs
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Hi,
as I’ve seen here
the SMS Feature should be usable in 7.2.0, now 7.1.2 is the current FW and 8.0 is in beta. Will SMS send be possible in the 8.0?
Regards
Dennis
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Yes, it’s targeted to include in firmware version 8.0 GA but not in beta yet.
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Hi Sit,
I’ve tested the 8.0 RC today. I’m happy to find some SMS features, but I don’t see the posibility to send SMS with the device
by the way, the link to the knowlegde base is fine, but there is no information about SMS.
Regards
Dennis
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SMS sending via device is not a direct feature at the WebAdmin page. You need to work with device level API in order to send the SMS. We still collecting the feedback from our partner that tested the feature in order for us to share the best practices for the community.
I will PM some of the info first before the information will be available in public forum post.
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Dennis,
We are officially launching the SMS feature in 8.0. We have just published a guide on our website to highlight the current functionality. It is the first document on this page:
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So this is to send the SIM card on the device commands by SMS. We still can’t send and receive text messages out of the router by the api/ other programming methods?
You need to integrate with Peplink Router Device Level API to sending the SMS. You can refer to the API guide below:
https://download.peplink.com/resources/Peplink+Router+API+Documentation+for+Firmware+8.0.0.pdf
Sample test case using POSTMAN:
Step 1. Login with username and password (/api/login)
Step 2. Send SMS /api/cmd/sms.sendMessage
Note: Coming Soon, Peplink Router Device Level API will be available via IC2 API. Detail info can be found using the following forum post:
https://forum.peplink.com/t/api-added-support-for-send-sms-via-api/21160/17
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Great! Thanks for the info, I got it working. Are there any plans to be able to read messages the sim card has received?
SIM Toolkit allow you to retrieve the SMS via WebAdmin access.
or you are looking at the device API level ?
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What would cause the SIM Toolkit to say only “No SMS” under SMS or when you hit refresh button there? (when SIM in another device receives test text messages fine)
Does SMS reception through the SIM Toolkit have to be enabled somewhere in the GUI?
Both device having the same firmware version ?
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Unfortunately, I only have one Peplink device that has cellular here, a BR1 mini, to test with. The SIM can receive text messages if I put it in another device (verizon brand MIFI hotspot). I don’t know much about SMS/text messages; I believe some plans can block text messages, but that is not the case here at least as the SIM can get text messages in another device, but none come through to the Peplink BR1 mini when viewing with the SIM tookit for some reason…
Is there any setting that has to be set to enable SMS through the SIM Toolkit on peplink devices?
Please open a support ticket for support team to check. This can be related to the SMS format store for the SIM card. Support team may need to check from the device in-order to confirm this.
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Hi, sorry to revive an old thread…
Some of our service providers are actually requesting an sms to be sent to them from the device when the dataplan day limit has been or is being reached.
It would be great if we could do the following:
- send sms to a number from the admin interface
- program the device to send an sms with a custom text to a pre-defined number when a certain rule has been tripped. In this case a certain amount of data has been used. But I can imagine more triggers.
i.e. LTE coverage getting weak or latency getting too high.
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Sending SMS is available if you are using device API. Please refer to the document below.
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