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Sat Nov 18, 2023 09:37
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renanlecaro: Description: The SAAS I built uses smstools for SMS marketing. I help organic small scale market gardeners sell their production to their neighbors
Usage: SMS marketing
Number of users: about 38 farmers
Deployment: a small server under my bed
Volume of 160-character SMs per day : 841
My server is a Mini PC Intel Celeron N4020, DDR4 4 Go/64 Go eMMC
It is running ubuntu 20
I have connected an 8 sim GSM modem and a 16 SIM modem (from aliexpress)
I have a "regular run" node script that polls my SAAS sever for messages to send and reports on the result of sending and replies.
My users generally have 150 clients to which they offer their produces every week by SMS
I have a single sms server with 18 sim cards. I use many sim card because each one is limited to about 200 unique contact number.
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Thu Apr 21, 2022 08:00
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renanlecaro: Hi all
I love smstools, I've been relying on it for years now, to send ~6k SMS / month.
I tried a month ago to install smstools on an Ubuntu machine.
The machine is very stable on Ubuntu 21.10
However, I tried to install smstools from source, as explained in the "how to compile/install" page.
On Ubuntu 21.10 I got an error
/usr/bin/ld: charshift.o:(.bss+0x34fec0): multiple definition of `communicate_a_keys'; /tmp/cc110HQW.o:(.bss+0x34dea0): first defined here
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
make[1]: *** [Makefile:63: smsd] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/renan/Downloads/smstools3/src'
make: *** [Makefile:10: compile] Error 2
Full output https://gist.github.com/renanlecaro/8b0ee1b26cef1de39b9bc6cbc2e52250
So I tried downgrading to 20.04, I could get the compilation working there.
The problem is, my device is very unstable on 20.04
Only today I realized you can install smstools from apt-get on Ubuntu 21.10
I'll upgrade my machine and go this way, but now I'm wondering why this way of installing is not put to the front in the "How to compile/install" page, to help beginners get started.
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Mon Jul 05, 2021 17:32
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renanlecaro: Could be that the modem is now mounted on another /dev/ttyUSBX ? I would try ls /dev to see what devices are there.
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Tue May 18, 2021 11:11
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renanlecaro: I've had some success with an aliexpress 8x modem, at least i could send a test message from ubuntu and smstools. I wrote a rough article about it here : https://lecaro.me/how-to-start-an-ubuntu-sms-farm.html
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