Traccar SMS Gateway for Android

We have developed a new Android app that allows you to use an Android phone as an SMS gateway for sending notifications via HTTP API.

Google hasn't approved it yet, but if you are interested in trying it, you can download APK directly from here:

https://github.com/traccar/traccar-sms-gateway/releases/tag/v1.1

Any feedback is welcome. The app is completely open source and free, as usual. And unlike some other similar apps, everything is done locally, so your data never goes to any third party service providers.

This is how you can configure Traccar server to use the app (replace IP_ADDRESS with your phone IP):

<entry key='notificator.types'>web,mail,sms</entry>
<entry key='notificator.sms.manager.class'>org.traccar.sms.HttpSmsClient</entry>
<entry key='sms.http.url'>http://IP_ADDRESS:8082/</entry>
<entry key='sms.http.template'>
    {
        "to": "{phone}",
        "message": "{message}"
    }
</entry>

Question. This only work when phone has fix ip?

My idea was that you can use some old Android device home or at the office always connected to the wifi and acting as a gateway. So, server would connect directly via a local network.

Also, I guess any dynamic DNS services can solve fixed IP issue.

Well, the fixed ip on a mobile using wifi is no problem. So that scenario would work ofc

Anton nice and very simple app.
can i see the outgoing SMS in this SMS Gateway for Android ?

Not at this point. It doesn't store messages.

hello Anton,

taking advantage of the SMS context, can you help me with these two questions?

1
this functionality runs in version 4.8?

I'm not getting results.

LOG:

2020-07-13 16:49:27 WARN: SMS send failed - Unexpected end of file from server - SocketException (...)

2
i have a voip server (elastix) with an sms gateway. is it possible to configure traccar to use this voip server? if so, where do I find the documentation?

Thank you!

1. Try restarting the app and see if it helps.
2. Please create a separate topic.

hi Anton,

1
to be faster, I installed version 4.9 on Windows on my notebook.

• I disabled the firewall
• set up fixed ip
• restarted windows

on Android smartphone:

• allowed the app to be the default for sending sms
• set up fixed ip
• I cleared the app's cache;
• I forced the stop;
• restarted the smartphone
• start in the app

I still haven't got a result.

Log:

2020-07-13 23:49:45 WARN: SMS send failed - Unexpected end of file from server - SocketException (...)

ping on Windows to smartphone gateway sms:
Response from 192.168.1.200: bytes = 32 time = 2ms TTL = 64

2
I'm sorry ... I'll do that.

What device are you using? And what Android version?

SAMSUNG SM-J710MN

J710MNVJS4CSL2/ J710MNZTO4CRK1/ J710MNUBS4CSL1

last update: 27/02/2020

Maybe you can try this server version:

https://www.dropbox.com/t/VVKp4JYM24dGSYLj

Not sure if it would help though. I guess we need to debug your specific device.

I just tested this version that you sent me.

log:

2020-07-14 00:49:09 WARN: SMS send failed - Unexpected end of file from server - SocketException (...)

I decided to do a test with netstat in search of port 8082 and verified that it is only on ipv6

log:

  TCP    [::1]:8082             [::1]:51962            ESTABLISHED     InHost
  TCP    [::1]:8082             [::1]:51963            ESTABLISHED     InHost
  TCP    [::1]:51961            [::1]:8082             TIME_WAIT       InHost
  TCP    [::1]:51962            [::1]:8082             ESTABLISHED     InHost
  TCP    [::1]:51963            [::1]:8082             ESTABLISHED     InHost

I apologize if this is silly...

Where did you do the netstat? On your phone?

on windows ... to get the cell phone ip ...

remembering that the windows firewall is disabled ...