JSMS - desktop app to use your free text message allocation (multi-operator)

Stench Blossoms

sdssarah wrote:

someone called mackers did a similar thing a few yrs ago, had a few more features in it like text compression. he originally called it o2sms but eventually wrote ones for vodafone and meteor too. its on his website:

http://www.mackers.com/projects/

I've tried this one a few times and it never works for me.

fbradyirl

Ok everyone I had a chance last Friday and I finally sat down and fixed this thing! I've also added a few new features.

Please donate a couple of euros and help keep the updates coming (so I won't be so slow in future) .

I am testing it at the minute and will be putting it up on this website for download later in the week:

http://meteorjsms.googlepages.com/

Please note you will need the latest version of Java installed on your computer first. Get that here.

P.S. Anyone on the mailing list will get a mail when I put it up there.

Cheers,
Finbarr

fbradyirl

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=52445063&postcount=79

TempestSabre

Nice1

Just installed it, works very well. Just a couple of thoughts. It would be nice if it could download your address book from Meteor.ie. How would you handle groups like it does on the meteor.ie. Thats a handy feature.

Still thanks for that. It annoying that Meteor doesn't allows webtxt outside of Ireland. Thats a PITA. Was handy to webtxt my mates in the UK. Mind you the O2 webtext was unsuable a lot of the time, because the site was so slow.

Redisle

This is a nice prigram but sadly im with vodafone... I have found another program that works for all 4 networks in ireland here
Ive been using it for a few weeks now and it seems pretty good

TempestSabre

ab_cork wrote:

This is a nice prigram but sadly im with vodafone... I have found another program that works for all 4 networks in ireland here
Ive been using it for a few weeks now and it seems pretty good

Is it fast?

Redisle

TempestSabre wrote:

Is it fast?

For sending messages?? Ya its fast, about the same time a phone takes to send a message.. and it comes as a standalone exe or as an install exe... you can have different profiles to choose from like you could have a login for each of the networks and choose which one to use... you can store numbers too obviously.

Its pretty good.

fbradyirl

fbradyirl wrote:

http://meteorjsms.googlepages.com/

The download is now available on the site

donutface

Would you be interested in getting this hooked up wth AFT? adding Vodafone/o2 support would be as easy as visiting one URL then, my msn address is donut (at) donutsoft (do.t) net

Please add me and we can speak further

Random

Nice program mate, I like the faxt that it supports Mac. Been meaning to try putting MT into Java myself (or something else which works on a MAC) as that's what I'm doing in college.

fbradyirl

donutface wrote:

Would you be interested in getting this hooked up wth AFT? adding Vodafone/o2 support would be as easy as visiting one URL then, my msn address is donut (at) donutsoft (do.t) net

Please add me and we can speak further

What's AFT? I don't think I would have time to start supporting Vodafone and O2 (maybe if I was getting paid I might consider it). The source code is there for anyone who wants to give it a lash.

fbradyirl

ciaranfo wrote:

Nice program mate, I like the faxt that it supports Mac. Been meaning to try putting MT into Java myself (or something else which works on a MAC) as that's what I'm doing in college.

No probs yeah it suits me caus I use a Mac at home and a PC & Solaris at work.

Random

@fbradyirl
PLEASE CHECK YOUR PM ASAP!

fbradyirl

Version 2.0.2 now available with bug fixes...

http://meteorjsms.googlepages.com/home

yman

You might be better off at scraping your own meteor screnscraping code and utilise donut's API... This way you don't need to maintain the codebase if meteor change their site Let donut do it!

Here's a wiki on the send msg api:
http://sms.donutsoft.net/wiki/pmwiki.php?n=AFT.SendingAMessage

donutface

Maybe not scrap his meteor code, but o2/vodafone would be very simple to implement
Simply make the program visit
http://sms.donutsoft.net/sendsms.aspx?s=o&u=username&p=password&d=0851234567&m=hello there!

for o2

or
http://sms.donutsoft.net/sendsms.aspx?s=v&u=username&p=password&d=0851234567&m=hello there!

(note s=v compared to s=o for o2/vodafone respectively).

Would take you 5 minutes to write the code

fbradyirl

thats really cool actually lads. Yeah ill have a look at this when I get time...

rymus

Not working for me for some reason. I'm running ubuntu with all the java updates. It constantly prompts for mobile number and password and even though both are entered correctly it doesnt get any further...

Webmonkey

fbradyirl wrote:

What's AFT? I don't think I would have time to start supporting Vodafone and O2 (maybe if I was getting paid I might consider it). The source code is there for anyone who wants to give it a lash.

Aft: http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2054999786

Handy out, costs very little on o2.

TempestSabre

A friend tried it with a Meteor phone but thats an 087 number and it didn't work for him.

rymus

same here... my meteor number is an 087 too

fbradyirl

donutface wrote:

Maybe not scrap his meteor code, but o2/vodafone would be very simple to implement
Simply make the program visit
http://sms.donutsoft.net/sendsms.aspx?s=o&u=username&p=password&d=0851234567&m=hello there!

for o2

or
http://sms.donutsoft.net/sendsms.aspx?s=v&u=username&p=password&d=0851234567&m=hello there!

(note s=v compared to s=o for o2/vodafone respectively).

Would take you 5 minutes to write the code

Yep Ill have a go to get it working with other operators. Might take more than 5 minutes though as my code is totally geared towards Meteor. I will need a couple of people who are with O2 & Vodafone to test it as I dont have logins for their sites. Let me know if you want to offer...

Sniipe

yeah, I tried it there I'm meteor with an 087 prefix. Didn't work for me; kept on asking for my number then my password, then again, and again,... looping. This a bug?

EDIT: strange, its working now. I've not looked at the source code, or previous messages but would the program work from the phone itself? A J2ME application/Midlet; that hooks up to the net to send the message then disconnects from the net after it... for texting other networks for cheaper than a normal text... same as that AFT program, which doesn't work for me.

fbradyirl

Just added Vodafone & O2 support thanks to http://sms.donutsoft.net message relay server. Download it from my webpage & dont forget to donate! Cheers...

http://meteorjsms.googlepages.com/

donutface

thanks for adding it man, its a great honour to help out so many people/programmers

EDIT: Friend from england let me know that your program doesnt support british number, remember o2 can text internationally

fbradyirl

donutface wrote:

thanks for adding it man, its a great honour to help out so many people/programmers

EDIT: Friend from england let me know that your program doesnt support british number, remember o2 can text internationally

Ive just added support for O2 to allow sms to international phones. Do u mean that international should be able to send texts also(i.e. login to my tool)?

donutface

international people can use it already, they just cant send to international numbers, thanks for fixing. Did you get my PM?

Btw, if AFT wont work for you, its because you havent rung up your network provider and asked them to set up your ISP access point

fbradyirl

I've put in a couple of new features like automatic address book download (meteor only). Check em out...

http://meteorjsms.googlepages.com/

fbradyirl

Also a large thanks is due to the AFT guys as some of the new features (the Vodafone & O2 parts) use services created by donut (donut@donutsoft.net) and are ran on yman’s (yman@computerboffin.com) server.

Random

fbradyirl wrote:

Also a large thanks is due to the AFT guys as some of the new features (the Vodafone & O2 parts) use services created by donut (donut@donutsoft.net) and are ran on yman’s (yman@computerboffin.com) server.

They're doing a grand job

fbradyirl

For all JSMS users on the Meteor network, I have released version 2.4.3 which fixes a bug in the code to deal with a slight change in the Meteor website. You can download for free from my site...

meteorjsms.googlepages.com

Cheers
Finbarr

fbradyirl

ab_cork wrote:

For sending messages?? Ya its fast, about the same time a phone takes to send a message.. and it comes as a standalone exe or as an install exe... you can have different profiles to choose from like you could have a login for each of the networks and choose which one to use... you can store numbers too obviously.

Its pretty good.

Just in case you don't know, JSMS is now working with Vodafone, O2 (via the AFT server) as well as Meteor.

http://meteorjsms.googlepages.com/

Cheers
Finbarr

Moriarty

Moved to Mobiles/PDAs.

yman

fbradyirl wrote:

For all JSMS users on the Meteor network, I have released version 2.4.3 which fixes a bug in the code to deal with a slight change in the Meteor website.

Just use the AFT API for sending meteor messages; let donut suffer maintaining the code when meteor changes their site :P

donutface

could you please say what slight change this was and what it broke?

fbradyirl

donutface wrote:

could you please say what slight change this was and what it broke?

It was an issue with cookies. Basically I was hard coding the size of both CID & CFTOKEN when reading them in.


CFID=203183;expires=Sat, 11-Apr-2037 15:21:40 GMT;path=/
CFTOKEN=84780846;expires=Sat, 11-Apr-2037 15:21:40 GMT;path=/

I changed my code to use a java StringTokenizer to read in the full integer between the first '=' and the ';' chars. This way it will work in future if Meteor change the length of their cookie ID again.

Let me know if you need more info...

Cheers,
Finbarr

donutface

ah, yeah that wont affect my code then.

Thanks a million for explaining

fbradyirl

For those people who couldn't get JSMS to work on Windows I have now included an EXE file in the download so it is much easier for those non-techies to use...

meteorjsms.googlepages.com

fbradyirl

Has anyone tried JSMS on the latest version of Ubuntu? I'm using 7.04 and the GUI isn't showing after launch. Just wondering if anyone else has seen this. Seems to work fine on Windows, Solaris & Mac though (same jar file)

SchrodingersCat

aye, im having the same problem. The splash screen doesnt go away, and the program doesnt load properly.

fbradyirl

SchrodingersCat wrote:

aye, im having the same problem. The splash screen doesnt go away, and the program doesnt load properly.

Just found out the fix for Ubuntu is putting the line:

export AWT_TOOLKIT="MToolkit"

...at the very end of these files:

~/.bashrc
~/.bashrc~ (Note: You might not have this one)
/etc/profile

...seemed to do the trick (you might need to restart your PC).

"Some Java applications which use the Swing API (If I remember correctly) have trouble displaying with Compiz (fancy animations in Linux)."

Heres the thread:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=362821

fbradyirl

Please post technical questions and answers on the JSMS sourceforge project website :

https://sourceforge.net/forum/?group_id=196351

Pet

Is there any way of getting this to work through a proxy server?

fbradyirl

Pet wrote:

Is there any way of getting this to work through a proxy server?

Yes I have it working behind a proxy at work. Just put your proxy details in the format

your-proxy-server.com:proxy-port-number

e.g.

proxy.ucd.ie:3128

You can find out what your proxy server and port are by looking in your web browser connection settings

Pet

What about secure proxies that require a username and password though?

fbradyirl

Pet wrote:

What about secure proxies that require a username and password though?

I hadn't thought of that! I'll see if I can write some code to handle a username & password also. I will post back after I give it a try (maybe you can test it out for me?). Are you running on Windows?

fbradyirl

I am looking for testers to verify a couple of new features in the next release of JSMS. The reason being that I am limited to testing on 3 OS's (Ubuntu/Windows 2000/Mac OS10).

If anyone can feedback to this forum or email meteorjsms@gmail.com (or PM me).

Here is the new jar(overwrite your old one):

http://meteorjsms.googlepages.com/JSMS2_9beta.jar

Please test these features if you can:
-Password encryption - check the file MeteorLogin.txt after you login
-Automatic proxy detection- If you are behind a proxy you should now not have to enter your proxy details into the ProxyConfig.txt file. Please let me know if this works for you or not!

Thanks a lot

fbradyirl

see

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=53342507#post53342507

fbradyirl

Version 3.0.3 now has a 'Create Group' window. Check it out...

https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=196351

fbradyirl

fbradyirl wrote:

Version 3.0.3 now has a 'Create Group' window. Check it out...

https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=196351

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