SMS with gnokii and nokia 6230i

June 27th, 2006 | Uncategorized

Sending sms via bluetooth with gentoo is “fairly” simple:

# emerge -pv gnokii
[ebuild   R   ] app-mobilephone/gnokii-0.6.10  +X +bluetooth -irda +mysql -nls -postgres +sms 0 kB
# emerge gnokii
(...)

Now tune your /etc/gnokiirc like this:

[global]
port = 
model = 6510
initlength = default
connection = bluetooth
use_locking = yes
serial_baudrate = 19200
smsc_timeout = 10

[gnokiid]
bindir = /usr/sbin/

Then launch xgnokii, the gui is intuïtive enough. If you want to send the messages via cmdline, just use the example from gnokii’s manpage:

echo "This is a test message" | gnokii --sendsms +48501123456 -r

Troubleshooting:

Q: When I try to run xgnokki or gnokki, it prints “Couldn’t open PHONET device: Connection refused”
A: Try again, it seems that there’s a bug related with first-time bluetooth connect attempts
Q: I set my cellphone bluetooth settings to autoconnect, but it keeps asking for my PIN on every SMS I send, why ?
A: Yep, perhaps a bluetooth security measure ? Bug or feature ?

4 comments ↓

#1 Simon on 04.09.07 at 1:13 pm

I am using cable to connect Nokia 6310i on Mandrivia 2007 Linux. I successfuly have instaled a gnokii but when i try to use(as a root) gnokii –identify command this happens
Orphaned line: port=/dev/ttyUSB0
Orphaned line: model=AT
Orphaned line: connection=serial
Orphaned line: model=6310i
Config error – no model specified.
my config file in /etc/gnokiirc looks like this
#port=/dev/usb/tts/ttyUSB0
port=/dev/ttyUSB0
model=AT
connection=serial
model=6310i

[logging]
debug = on

can u tell me what might be wrong ??

#2 brainstorm on 05.16.07 at 7:51 pm

Looks like you’ve tried to setup a wrong model:

“Config error – no model specified.”

Please check the list of gnokii supported cellphones and try with the most similar to your own mobile.

#3 BrainBlog » Nokia 6230i simple backup on 06.16.07 at 5:55 pm

[...] Here I’m assuming that you have configured your /etc/gnokiirc properly. Just for the record, I’m using a bluetooth usb adapter. [...]

#4 pravin on 06.06.08 at 12:24 pm

@Simon – Just add [global] at the start of .gnokiirc and that error will go away.

SMS with gnokii and nokia 6230i

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