All,
I ordered and received a Etroos SMS Printer from China and now that I have it I see the user manual is simply a joke!
I followed the user manual to send a sms to device and print something but I can't get it working, has anyone here used these devices?
The phone works, I can send SMS, it seems it does receive the SMS (I see lights are changing) but no printing, no order history and not even I can see the SMS in the history!
Any idea? Help is appreciated.
Amir
In case you end up with the same issue, finally got it to work by upgrading the firmware and prn definitions using the latest utility from the manufacturer.
Contact them, they reply with huge delay, use paypal to pay and open a dispute if they didn't answer and they will get back to you!!!
Amir
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So I need to programmatically receive text messages from a shortcode. Twilio does not support this. Anybody know a service like Twilio but that is able to receive SMS messages from a short code sender?
Just to be clear. I need to receive a text message from a shortcode to a 10 digit number, not send from a shortcode.
Most services (Twilio, call fire) that let you send from a shortcode can not receive a text message from a shortcode
This can’t be done, shortcodes are unique to each carrier network, when a short code is available across multiple carriers it is implemented on each carrier separatly.
Also shortcodes are not international so 54321 could be used in both the UK and US by totally separate services.
SMS providers like Twilio and Vonage connect to the carriers in the same way as the shortcodes do, they are both an application connection. The carriers do not permit app to app messaging through their network so a shortcode app will only ever be able to send to a real subscriber with a SIM card.
You might find some providers that offer an SMS API by using banks of hosted SIM cards but this can be very flakey and you are usually sharing the number. The other option might be to look at hosting your own SIM card in a usb single or such and recieve the SMS that way.
Actually, Twillio does support this now, although with a big disclaimer that it "cannot guarantee that every short code globally will be able to reach Twilio numbers"
https://support.twilio.com/hc/en-us/articles/223181668-Can-Twilio-numbers-receive-SMS-from-a-short-code-?_ga=2.202438166.641482548.1608644940-210958917.1588771372
I think this article might be just what you're looking for https://help.nexmo.com/hc/en-us/articles/216487658-Inbound-SMS-on-dedicated-US-short-code
You should be able to receive SMS messages on a dedicated US Shortcode.
Is there anyway to send the same text to multiple contacts not as a group text. I have been told that it would need a server to accomplish this. If that is the case I would like to be able to still send texts from my current number not a new number. I have checked out Twilio but have not gotten very far.
Twilio developer evangelist here.
You cannot send mass text messages using Twilio and your existing phone number.
One option you might have is, if you have a Mac you can control the SMS app programmatically to send lots of SMS messages. Here's a blog post with some example code to do that: https://www.twilio.com/blog/2017/06/drawing-pixel-art-text-messages-signal-video-wall.html
That might not be of much help, but while you can send lots of SMS messages with Twilio, you cannot do so using your existing number.
Yes you could send mass texts out to different numbers using twilio. No you could not use your current number.
You would have to purchase a new twilio number that has SMS messaging enabled.
Look at the Twilio documentation and their get started guide, figure out the language you want to create your server in and you will be sending texts in no time. https://www.twilio.com/docs/quickstart/node/programmable-sms You would run the webserver. Twilio does not offer a swift or ios based SMS solution.
https://www.twilio.com/docs/quickstart?filter-language=swift
I do not know if this is the appropriate forum for asking help for my issue, in case it is not i would like to apologies for any inconvenience.
So, the story goes somehow like that, i have purchased a number from Twilio in order to use it for sending/receiving faxes. Our Telephony System is a Digium switchvox and i have also configured a Cisco CUBE to the edge of my network.
When we try to send a fax, we can see that the packet reaches Twilio, but there is an error:
Error - 32102
SIP: Bad SDP
Please let me know if you had the chance to make it work.
Kind Regards,
Twilio don't support t.38
You can't archive that through twilio as a provider
I want to verify mobile phone numbers. The mobile phone numbers can be from anywhere, I mean any country. My idea is to send an sms with a code, and then ask for that code.
I am not sure if Twilio is a correct choice for doing that, because I do not understand if with a phone number from Twilio I am able to send messages around the world. I am also not sure about the costs of sending messages.
Is Twilio right for this or should I look for another service?
Thanks
Twilio developer evangelist here.
You're totally on the right track. With a Twilio number you can send SMS messages to over 200 countries, and get local numbers in over 40 countries. Have a look at this FAQ for more information.
Have a look at this blog post where we show you how to use Twilio to verify phone numbers on the way you asked.
You will find pricing information in this page, and it will vary slightly from country to country.
Hope this answers your question.
You can also test other similar verification service.
www.foneverify.com is one such service providing verification across the globe.
You can try our services by signing up for free.
Disclosure: I am the product manager of foneverify.
Thanks,
Shivam
I am Developing a Sms Convesation Application using Twilio API. What My Application does is It Send SMS to Mobile device prompting some options to chose. Users should reply back with anyone of the given option. What i want is when someone replies back to my application, I want the MessageSid of sent message(Message sent from Application). How can I acheive this? Please Help me
Twilio evangelist here.
There is no way to get the sid of a previous message from an inbound message since we don't track that. The SMS protocol has no facility for a "conversation" in it so we don't know that the inbound message is a "reply" to anything.
What you need to do is store in your app the fact that you sent a text message to a specific phone number. Then when that user replies from that number you would be able to know that you had previously sent them a message.
Hope that helps.
Devin
I don't believe this is possible. SMS messages are "stateless", much like HTTP requests. The only thing you could use like a session id would be the phone number. What about tracking conversation history by mapping an array of MessageSids to the phone number?