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Saturn | # 801 | 2011-06-14, 23:49 | Report

Originally Posted by carlon View Post

i got this error on starting smscon;

smscon -start
ps: invalid option -- a
BusyBox v1.18.4 (Debian 3:1.10.2.legal-1osso30+0m5) multi-call binary.

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install the latest version of http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=72801

Originally Posted by carlon View Post

never mind guys i found every thing in the wiki, i was looking in the smsconeditor wiki before. A suggestion though, from what i understand sending an sms with key word Location will tell the phone to send its location, but any that knows about smscon and how it works can use that against me. How about this, instead of just key word Location, i use Location

assword. that way the commands are customized to the user and not generalized as on an operating system where anyone that knows them can use the system

use the prefix instead
http://wiki.maemo.org/SMSCON_Editor#Prefixing_Commands

A request: Please instead of multiple consecutive entries consider in editing and adding (e.g. when you found the answer to your question before someone answered). Otherwise the thread will grow and makes it difficult for others to follow..

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carlon | # 802 | 2011-06-15, 01:16 | Report

worked like a charm thanks.

systemcrash | # 803 | 2011-06-15, 10:41 | Report

Originally Posted by nicholes View Post

can you add a new option to delete folder or images on new Sim?? it is hard to understand the other methods to do this stuff

There is a command to launch a pre-existing script. Just create one script that will delete all your pictures and send the SMS to launch it whenever you want.

That's what I did.

digitalvoid | # 804 | 2011-06-16, 08:48 | Report

@ BluesLee:

The smscon_daemon also use pnatd to send the SMS messages.

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carlon | # 805 | 2011-06-16, 14:44 | Report

Hi, i've been testing the app lately, and i noticed that the camera command doesn't work fully, ie it sends the email but i cant seem to see the picture.

Another thing i observed it that all of the commands are centered around the pretext that if your phone gets stolen the thief wont change the sim card, but what if he does? a suggestion would be, upon a sim card change the phone locks and an sms or email or both is sent with the phone number of the new sim card, that way all the commands can be executed with the new number while the phone remains locked.

My apologies if this feature already exists and i haven't noticed

Keneraali | # 806 | 2011-06-16, 16:20 | Report

Anyone else having problems with prefixes set with SMSCon editor? I've set Smscon_ as prefix, eg. Smscom_Poweroff, and now the commands don't work.

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digitalvoid | # 807 | 2011-06-16, 18:47 | Report

Originally Posted by carlon View Post

Hi, i've been testing the app lately, and i noticed that the camera command doesn't work fully, ie it sends the email but i cant seem to see the picture.

Another thing i observed it that all of the commands are centered around the pretext that if your phone gets stolen the thief wont change the sim card, but what if he does? a suggestion would be, upon a sim card change the phone locks and an sms or email or both is sent with the phone number of the new sim card, that way all the commands can be executed with the new number while the phone remains locked.

My apologies if this feature already exists and i haven't noticed

It's already implemented (it's one of it's core features)! See also the wiki.

Saturn | # 808 | 2011-06-16, 18:54 | Report

Originally Posted by Keneraali View Post

Anyone else having problems with prefixes set with SMSCon editor? I've set Smscon_ as prefix, eg. Smscom_Poweroff, and now the commands don't work.

Thanks. Confirming this as an issue with SMSCON and have add it in the known issues list.

The "_" character does not get decoded correctly on reception and any command having this fails to execute.

Recommended: until a fix is made avoid using this character in the commands.

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carlon | # 809 | 2011-06-16, 19:02 | Report

Anyone else having problems with prefixes set with SMSCon editor? I've set Smscon_ as prefix, eg. Smscom_Poweroff, and now the commands don't work.

I can confirm this, the prefixes set using the editor didn't work for me either.

@digitalvoid: thanks, i found the feature in the wiki, my bad. I also noticed that the "email a frontcam picture" feature has gprs connection in brackets, does this mean that it doesn't work via wifi? because i get the email, but what i am unable to see i the picture.

digitalvoid | # 810 | 2011-06-16, 19:45 | Report

Originally Posted by Saturn View Post

Thanks. Confirming this as an issue with SMSCON and have add it in the known issues list.

The "_" character does not get decoded correctly on reception and any command having this fails to execute.

Recommended: until a fix is made avoid using this character in the commands.

I reviewed my code, but I fail to see where I could go wrong...

The underscore character is indeed a valid SMS character (it's in the specification of the GSM 03.38 character set), so it should work.

But.... When I put some prefix text (ex. 2 normal alphabet characters) in SMSCON-editor and update the settings, I don't see my prefix in the smscon_config file at the SMS "COM_XXXX" commands.

Or am I doing something wrong...