Huzzah! A breakthrough!

After a week of fiddling and trying various outdated tutorials, I *finally* got my D-Link DWM-222 USB Modem thing to send, and read, SMS texts on a #RaspberryPi (4B) running #ubuntu2404, using #gammu.

Turns out, I needed to downgrade the DWM's firmware, to a very specific different version, using a Windows PC first. Obviously. 🙄 Hey. It was only the 6th(?) firmware version I tried.

But yay! Progress!!

https://mastodon.philtanner.com/@Phil_Tanner/112314314391513188

Looking for some #FediHelp with some #RaspberryPi stuff - #BoostsWelcomed

I'm trying to set up a #RPi4 to interact with #SMS messages (in the UK, eventually, but setup/testing in AotearoaNZ).

Many moons ago, I had something similar going with a USB dongle from Vodafone, and #gammu - however it only worked with Vodafone SIMs. I'm wanting something not SIM locked, but that still does SMS (all the things I see online seem to be 3G/4G focussed).

Recommendations please?

After some painful trial and error I managed to backup all SMSs, contacts and images stored on my 2005 Nokia phone.

I was able to even convert the SMS backup to an mbox archive thanks to #Gammu and #Wammu, so now I can import them on Thunderbird.

Also, now I can make calls and send SMSs from the command line 😌