Adventures in IT

I got this error even though I had an smsbox defined.  Unfortunately I had forgotten to create the smsbox-route group, so this is a very quick fix: #--------------------------------------------- ## SMS ROUTING ##--------------------------------------------- group = smsbox-route smsbox-id = mainbox smsc-id = ztemodem-smsc-group sim-buffering = false ... continues ... Just make sure the id's matchup, so my smsbox group begins with this: #--------------------------------------------- ## SMS BOX ##--------------------------------------------- group = smsbox smsbox-id = mainbox ... continues ... And my SMSC looks like this: #--------------------------------------------- ## GSM MODEM SMSC ##--------------------------------------------- group = smsc smsc-id = ztemodem-smsc-group ... continues ... This successfully cleared the "smsbox_list empty" error and allowed messages to be delivered properly. Kannel had until then been able to send messages and receive delivery...

Our office (who wants me to mention how awesome they are) had a need for a means to send/receive automated sms messages relating to online banking. We decided to give a Raspberry Pi the job and so I have had the fun of setting it all up. First off I installed Rasbian (  http://www.raspbian.org/  ) which is a Debian fork and is sufficiently easy to do following the guide on eLinux ( here  ) which is linked to from the Raspberry Pi project website downloads page. Next came a standard LAMP stack install.  I needed to have a web-server running because we will be running a management package on the box to track messages etc. Next came Kannel.  I used the default package available from the Rasbian repositories so there was no need for fiddling. My kannel.conf file was the next hurdle.  For the most part this is pretty easy to set up from the examples given on Kannel's site and elsewhere on the web.  I want to just mention the modem part, which was pe...