[plug] OT: nokia data cable

[Benjamin J Keith]

I'd forgotten about the mgetty-voice thing, thanks for the reminder :)

On Mon, 8 Jan 2007, Matt Kemner wrote:

> On Mon, 8 Jan 2007, quoth Benjamin J Keith:
>
>> Of course you may also want to send an alert if the internet link is down.
>> Kudos to the person who can come up with way to send a message, not
>> necessarily sms, between the 56k modem and the mobile.  Any ideas?
>
> When "voice modems" first became popular, I used mgetty+voice to ring my
> mobile, and play a sound file letting me know what the problem was.
>
> Nowadays I use a wavecomm GSM modem to send SMS - it uses basic AT
> commands and there are several Linux packages that will talk to it.
> (I use smstools)
>
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