[olug] groups sms recommendation?

Fri Dec 2 14:15:49 CST 2022

Chart of GSM-7 character set shows that almost all of the control
characters are ripped out of ASCII
and replaced with other printable chars.   Only CR,LF, and ESC remain.
So hopefully any API converts  incompatible chars for you like this webpage
does:

https://twiliodeved.github.io/message-segment-calculator/

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/GSM_03.38#GSM_7-bit_default_alphabet_and_extension_table_of_3GPP_TS_23.038_.2F_GSM_03.38

Be very leary if any double quote char that is not 0x22 or 34.

My issues mainly bit me using powershell.exe, pwsh, wt.exe , and even wsl
because Windows  cli character encoding is a nightmare!   wsl does not run
for me atm, so can’t verify how that behaved.  Want to say wsl was broken
but not the MobaXterm shell.

If you work on many different platforms  or aiming to make your script or
datafile cross-platform, be careful, the start of the file may be utf8
(Linux Standard) and it looks normal but have an incompatible u16 char that
will timesink your project.

On Fri, Dec 2, 2022 at 12:04 PM Rob Townley <rob.townley at gmail.com> wrote:

> Kinda late to the convo, but yes FlowRoute is good.  Any experience yet?
>
> I have had the following problem bite me a few times.  Just last night,
>  LibreOffice Sheets ( don’t believe it  Google admin console ) did the
> following which broke a script for me:
> "if your text editor changes " to “ — a ‘curly’ or ‘smart’ quote mark —
> you will have a UCS-2 character in your message and that will reduce the
> character limit from 160 to 70.”
> https://www.twilio.com/docs/glossary/what-sms-character-limit
>
> Twilio ( which must have or had some connection to Twitter ) has an api as
> well.  Twilio seemed to be the first to offer an _easy_ way to encrypt the
> media channels - the voice in voice calls.
> https://www.twilio.com/docs/sms/send-messages
>
> Pay-as-you-go SMS pricing
> NUMBER USEDTEXT MESSAGESPICTURE MESSAGESMESSAGING SERVICE FEATURES*
> TO SEND †‡§TO RECEIVE †§TO SEND †‡§TO RECEIVE †§
> LOCAL NUMBERS
> $ 0.0079
> $ 0.0079
> $ 0.0200
> $ 0.0100
> INCLUDED
> TOLL‑FREE NUMBERS
> $ 0.0079
> $ 0.0079
> $ 0.0200
> $ 0.0200
> INCLUDED
> SHORT CODES
> $ 0.0079
> $ 0.0079
>
> On Mon, Nov 21, 2022 at 9:52 PM Justin Reiners - Reiners Cloud LLC <
> justin at reiners.io> wrote:
>
>> I've used flowroute sms api for years. It works great, and it's super easy
>> to script it to loop and send a million sms if need be.
>>
>> Hit me up if you have issues.
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Nov 21, 2022, 9:45 PM Jeff Hinrichs <dundeemt at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > Matt: That is a possible route, but I want to exhaust a service only
>> route
>> > first.
>> >
>> > Justin: Flowroute, will color me curious.  I use Flowroute for my home
>> > phone.
>> > I'm going to dig through their docs now.  Thanks for pointing out the
>> snake
>> > at my feet :)
>> > (ha ha a python ref too)
>> >
>> > On Mon, Nov 21, 2022 at 6:19 PM Justin Reiners - Reiners Cloud LLC <
>> > justin at reiners.io> wrote:
>> >
>> > > Flowroutes sms api works well if you programmatically use the API to
>> fire
>> > > sms alerts in python too. Partshotlines used to use that setup for web
>> > > notifications for thousands of users.
>> > >
>> > > On Mon, Nov 21, 2022, 6:14 PM Matt Payne <payne at mattpayne.org> wrote:
>> > >
>> > > > https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33697557 was just posted to
>> > > > HackerNe.WS; the modem they mention looks to sell for $89 on Amazon.
>> > So,
>> > > > maybe a cell phone plan to go with the SIM card in the modem would
>> cost
>> > > > less than the $24/month?   IDK.   I'm curious about what you end up
>> > > doing.
>> > > >  --Matt Payne
>> > > >
>> > > > On Thu, Nov 17, 2022, at 3:20 PM, Matt Payne wrote:
>> > > > > I enjoy Telegram.org very much.  I'm http://t.me/MattPayneOrg if
>> you
>> > > > want to try things out.   Telegram has terrific group support (I'm
>> in
>> > > > several) and other features ( I mostly do not use them).
>> > > > >
>> > > > > If folks have to have text messages, I don't have good ideas.
>>  The
>> > old
>> > > > sending an email to text is likely not enough to help.  But it might
>> > > be.  A
>> > > > quick google shows that
>> > > > https://www.att.com/support/article/wireless/KM1061254/ and
>> > > > https://www.verizon.com/support/text-messaging-faqs/ seem to
>> support
>> > the
>> > > > old email-to-text bit.
>> > > > >
>> > > > > I'm curious how this works out.  It's an interesting project.
>>  Good
>> > > > luck! --Matt Payne
>> > > > >
>> > > > > On Thu, Nov 17, 2022, at 9:08 AM, Jeff Hinrichs wrote:
>> > > > >> I am looking for a group SMS tool - about 65 numbers for a
>> > non-profit
>> > > > >> philanthropy.
>> > > > >> On android/iphone phones, group capabilities are limited and we
>> end
>> > up
>> > > > >> creating multiple groups on individual phones currently.  I'm
>> > looking
>> > > to
>> > > > >> find if there is a better solution.  Anyone care to make a
>> > > > recommendation?
>> > > > >>
>> > > > >> The least expensive web platforms are about 24/month, however we
>> are
>> > > > not a
>> > > > >> money based org and we use it for reminding/calling for
>> volunteers.
>> > > So
>> > > > it
>> > > > >> is important to keep the cost as low as possible.
>> > > > >>
>> > > > >> --
>> > > > >> Best,
>> > > > >>
>> > > > >> Jeff Hinrichs
>> > > > >> dundeemt at gmail.com
>> > > > >> 402.320.0821
>> > > > >> 402.218.1473
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