termux-sms-gateway

SMS and notification gateway from Android smartphone

Goal:

Make any laptop with an Internet connection an SMS gateway Send SMS from his desktop from a web interface or other. Receive SMS on his desk in order to use the content.

Method used

• SMS sending

• SMS are created on one machine (1 or more) on the network.

  • They are then published to a public or private MQTT server
  • The messages are received on an MQTT client installed on the laptop (1 or more).
  • The messages are then sent to the recipients.

SMS reception

• The SMS are received on the mobile and published to the MQTT server
• The messages are received on an MQTT client installed on the subscribed machine (1 or more)

Conditions for receiving or sending

• Take a public or private MQTT server to relay messages
• Subscribe MQTT clients to the same topics

Non-exhaustive use

• Email message usage
• Receive and process alert messages (IOT or other)
• etc ...

Conditions for receiving or sending

• Take a public or private MQTT server to relay messages
• Subscribe MQTT customers to the same topics

You can install your own mosquitto server

https://mosquitto.org/download/

More information on MQTT: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/MQTT

• Security of data transmitted

We may need to encrypt the content for security reasons.

Use encryption with public key / private key on clients

Non-exhaustive use

• Complement of the email message
• Receive and process alert messages (IOT or other)
• etc ...

Installation

https://github.com/termux/termux-app

Installation of termux

• Termux application obtained by F-Droid:

  • https://www.f-droid.org/fr/

• Or by google store:

  • https://play.google.com/

IMPORTANT: We will choose either one or the other.

• Install
  • Termux
  • Termux: API
  • Termux: Widget

Installing the mqtt client:

The following python packages will be installed:

• termux-sms-gateway
• paho-mqtt
• rsa >> https://stuvel.eu/python-rsa-doc/

Installation procedure

After installing termux on the laptop, launch Termux

• Copy and paste the following command in the terminal

    export PACKAGE="TermuxSmsGateway"&&export VERSION="1.0"&&mkdir -p $HOME/.termux/tasks&&
    apt install termux-api git -y&&rm -rf termux-sms-gateway&&
    git clone &&
    cp -f $PACKAGE/smsquitto-st* $HOME/.termux/tasks/&&cp -f $PACKAGE/smsquitto/smsquitto-conf.yaml $HOME/.termux/&&
    pip install $PACKAGE/dist/smsquitto-$VERSION.tar.gz
  

• Enter to start the installation

Installation parameters

• The installation parameters are in ~ / .termux / smsquitto-conf.yaml

  • host: ip or domain of the MQTT server

  • port: 1883 or 8883

  • keepalive: 60

  • username: login

  • password: password

  • useSSL: False or True

  • ca_cert: path/of/file/ca.cert

  • apikey: string

    • ** IMPORTANT **: This key is used to synchronize the topics with the subscriptions
      • ex: SQTT010203040506079

• Copy and paste the following command in the terminal

    nano $HOME/.termux/smsquitto-conf.yaml
  

• Install the service

  • Install the Tremux widget:Widget on the phone's desktop by keeping your finger on the screen
  • Choose shortcut
  • Change the icon and the name if you want
  • Start the service by clicking the icon

Uses

• An MQTT client is required to operate the phone.

  • The smsquittod.py module gives an example of a client written in python.

    • The library used is that of the Eclipse foundation: pahon-mqtt
    • It will suffice to implement the ClientMQTTBase class

  • The sms-client-test.html file is another example but in websocket mode.

    • It will suffice to directly modify the html file
    • we launch it directly in a browser
      • by drag and drop
      • by an address of this type
        • file: ///path/du/fichier/sms-client.html

• demonstration

  • sms-client-test.html is fully functional
  • You just have to update the apikey in this file and in the configuration file on the mobile phone
  • And set up some mobile numbers to do the tests

Domotiz

• https://www.domoticz.com/wiki/Getting_started

• Send notification from custom HTTP/Action

  • Notification

    • script://notify.sh #FIELD1 #FIELD2 #FIELD3 #FIELD4 #TO #MESSAGE --tls or nothing
      • /usr/bin/python3 /home/pi/domoticz/scripts/notify.py --method=notify --host=$1 --port=$2 --user=$3 --password=$4 --apikey=$5 --text="$6" $7

  • SMS

    • script://notify.sh #FIELD1 #FIELD2 #FIELD3 #FIELD4 #TO #MESSAGE "00330645953706,0033791246318" --tls or nothing
      • /usr/bin/python3 /home/pi/domoticz/scripts/notify.py --method=sms --host=$1 --port=$2 --user=$3 --password=$4 --apikey=$5 --text="$6" --phone="$7" $8

  • SSL certification

    • argument --tls, in $7 or $8.
    • the certification key is in domoticz/scripts/notify.py. Thinking of modifying it.

  • You must install python3 paho-mqtt library: pip3 install paho-mqtt

Orders

Messages sent and received on the phone are in this form

• (topic, payload)
  • topic: is a character string that starts with apikey see above
    • apikey/pub/sms
    • apikey/emit/inbox
  • payload: is a Json string
    • {mobile: [mobile1, mobile2, etc ...], subject: "the subject", msg: "the message"}
    • {time: time, payload: payload}
• orders
  • apikey/pub/sms send an sms
  • apikey/pub/notify send notification to phone
  • apikey/pub/location request for Geographic positioning
  • apikey/pub/inbox or all or sent or draft or outbox Read SMS
  • apikey/pub/kill-service stop the service on the phone