On 2023-03-27 15:38, Per Jessen wrote:
Per Jessen wrote:
Carlos E. R. wrote:
Hi,
Do we have some instant message client? Something that can send a text message to a mobile phone, from a script? Say whatsapp, signal, telegram... :-?
I have used such a script for almost twenty years, but it requires a mobile phone subscription.
Just for completeness - in the beginning (2004/5), it was in fact free and needed no mobile. It just used the landline SMS service centre, which came free-of-charge with my telephone subscription. Later on, maybe 5-6 years ago, we switched to VoIP and the access to the SMSC was gone, so I had to work it out with a cheap pre-paid mobile subscription.
I have recently switched to Threema instead.
What Adam mentioned looks very interesting though, I'll have to try it out. I'm a little bit hesitant about needing an app, I have been bitten before, by apps no longer being supported after an Android upgrade.
I have bumped into sites talking about creating your own app and using your own push notifications. There is a possibility that I have not heard mentioned. Maybe it doesn't exist. Google is pushing an SMS replacement, RCS. Apple refuses to implement it, so iphones do not support it. Android does. It needs help from the providers; in fact, google is not needed if the providers had moved to support it directly, but as they didn't, google moved to do it themselves, and only then providers moved. It uses internet for sending messages "somehow". It can send more than text, and is always gratis. In the USA, SMS sending is gratis, so there is not much interest. But, for instance, it costs me 1€ to send an SMS to an iphone at the other side of the Atlantic, zero to most android phones. Ok, the thing is, there could appear servers to send RCS to phones at zero cost. I googled, did not find it. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rich_Communication_Services) -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 15.4 x86_64 at Telcontar)