Re: First time user questions

[Dogsbody]

Hi Peter,

> There is a even a TELNET-style system that works  over SMS IIRC... You
> can run a client on a mobile phone and run a shell into your PC with it.
> YMMV.

Yeah, I have seen some info on that [1], I'm holding it as a backup if I can't 
get gnokii working  :-)  My perl programming is not good when it comes to serial 
ports and I don't want the learning curve if there is a easier option :-)


> dan> Q1: The initialisation seems to take quite a while when
> dan> communicating with the phone.
>
> I think that's unavoidable. Mobile phones are slow. Their protocols are
> not the zippiest.

Fair enough, this is what I wanted to find out, it does seem to be the 
connecting that does it as opposed to the actual getting data on or off the 
phone.  20 seconds is a long time when your staring at it :-)


> Again, does a delay of one minute matter? Even if you are in the same
> building it could take you more than one minute to react.

Point taken, I think I'm more worried about tying everything up the serial port 
with messages being sent and ones being received at the same time, I have now 
found gsmqueue [2] and think I'll copy this concept.

> If you need just batch operationj, also check 'gammu', it is slightly
> more featureful than 'gnokii', and may use slightly faster setup than
> 'gnokii', or slower; the bottleneck is on the phone though. Check for
> links:
>
>   http://WWW.Cihar.com/gammu/

Thanks, I'll check this out.

> The big thing about 'gnokii' is not 'gnokii' itself, but 'xgnokii',
> which is quite nice; while 'gammu' has now got 'wammu', bit I think
> 'xgnokii' is still nicer). But not relevant to your stuff.

Yeah, I don't even have X librarys installed.

Thank you for your help.

Dan

[1] http://www.alsutton.com/Nokia6210_SMS.html
[2] http://www.yty.net/h/gsm/

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