scmxx

OPTIONS

--device (-d)

specify another than the compiled in device. This overwrites the SCMXX_TTY environment variable and the compiled-in value. For linux systems, this may be e.g. /dev/ttyS0 for serial connections, /dev/ircomm0 for infrared connections and /dev/rfcomm0 for bluetooth connections.

--baud (-b)

specify the device's speed. Valid values are dependent on the system but may be 9600, 19200, 38400, 57600 or 115200. The default value is 19200. The S25 and *35i only work at the 19200, all later phones also work at full serial speed. Infrared connections may be an exception to these rules (dependent on the infrared donle). This overwrites the SCMXX_BAUD environment variable and the compiled-in value.

--out (-o)

specify a file to use. When getting binary files with "all", the slot number, a dot and the filetype are appended. When sending or deleting, this parameter has no use but the last parameters that should be valid files. Stdout must be explicitly selected with the dash ("-"), by default nothing is written to stdout. There is nothing appended to "-" when getting multiple files.

--pipe (-p)

specify a pipe to another program. When getting with "all", every file is piped to this programs on its own (only for --binary and --sms).

--quiet (-q)

decreases verbosity by 1

--pin

use this option if a PIN code is required for access

--verbose (-v)

increases verbosity by 1

--reset

try to reset the phone, so it gets accessible again. It may happen that the phone does not answer on the serial interface anymore, especially with a previous user-interrupted file transfer. This simply blindly sends some special characters.

--help (-h)

print the help message

--version

print the version number

--remove (-r)

removes an entry from the phone. When specified with --sms and --get, this will get'n'delete. When specified with --sms and --send, this will send'n'delete.

--get (-g)

get an entry and save it to a file. When specified with --sms and --remove, this will get'n'delete. When specified with --sms and --send, this will get'n'send.

--send (-s)

sends a file to the phone. When sending sms, you might want to take a look at the option --direct, too. When specified with --sms and --remove, this will send'n'delete. When specified with --sms and --get, this will get'n'send.

--info (-i)

collect information from the phone, --mem-info can be used as a trigger to display a more complex listing of the available memories

--mem-info

display information about available memories and their slots and other information. It uses the same format as --mem=? (see below) and can also be use as a trigger for --info to replace the short memory listing.

--lock-info

display status of locks. It can also be use as a trigger for --info to replace the lock name listing.

--toggle-lock

toggle the status of a lock. For some locks, a password is needed (use the --pin option for that case).

--set-time

synchronize time to phone. The use of tools like ntpdate is recommended before using this.

--set-smsc

set the SMSC number (requires --number)

--binary (-N)

select binary file transfer mode

--pbook (-P)

select phonebook transfer mode

--sms (-S)

select short message service mode

--mem

select a memory to access. Slot numbers may vary depending on the selected memory. See the output of --info for the supported memory types. Not using this option triggers the default behaviour (if a default behaviour was defined). There is a special string "?" that outputs in the same format as --mem-info but only for the selected mode.

--slot

select a slot to access. See the output of --mem-info or --mem=?. Not using this option triggers the default behaviour (if a default behaviour was defined). The special string "all" defines the whole range of available slots for the selected memory and mode and, except with --sms, cannot be used with --send. For SMS, there are four additional special strings: "read", "unread", "sent" and "unsent". The latter two can be used with --send. For phonebook access, there is the additional special string "last". When this option is omitted with --send, scmxx tries to find an empty slot (that may or may not take long). Finding an empty slot is not supported for phonebooks, yet. When a slot was specified and also multiple files to upload, the specified slot is the starting point to search for empty slots. Overwriting multiple, non-empty slots is not supported, yet, except for the special case "all".

--text (-t)

specify content text of short message or text of the phonebook entry. For short messages the length is currently limited to 160 GSM characters (minus 1 for every used character that needs 14bit encoding) or 70 UCS-2 characters. The program will deny sending, if the text is too long. For phonebook entries, the length limit may depend on the selected phonebook (see output of --mem-info or --mem=?).

--number (-n)

specify number to send the short message to or the number for the phonebook entry. Note that the number may have a leading '+' for international numbers. It is normally limited to 20 digits (without the '+') which is certainly enough.

--direct

send/get short messages without storing in the phone. This is not default because you will certainly be charged for it when sending. With direct getting, SMS that are not of type DELIVER are still stored on the phone (scmxx cannot decode those messages, yet).

--unicode

send the short message and use UCS-2 (16bit unicode) as character set. This limits the short message to 70 character. If this option is not specified, 7bit GSM character encoding is used with a maximum of 160 characters. You do not need to specify this parameter to enable unicode sms decoding.

--flash

set the class0 in the data coding scheme field that is normally interpreted as "immediate display". Not all receiving entities support this. Note that a second sms of this type normally overwrites a previous one without asking! Its use is not recommended.

--srr

this sets the StatusReportRequest bit in the pdutype field of the sms pdu. It depends on the SMSC if this is honored. With some providers, this produces additional costs!

--sort

sort the messages on printing to chosen output. Possible sorting methods are "type", "slot" and "type,slot". "type" sorts for the type of the short message with an internal order of unsupported types first, then SMS-SUBMIT, SMS-STATUS-REPORT and SMS-DELIVER. "slot" sorts for the slot of the short message. "type,slot" does sorting like "type" first and sorts each type like "slot". Default is to not sort at all (order depends on phone).

--system-charset

define the system character set instead of using the return value from nl_langinfo(CODESET). This is to work around systems that do not support unicode locales like UTF-8 or when data from a different system with a different locale is used as input. Usually, you do not need this option.

USAGE

Send an bitmap file to the phone as Bitmap:

scmxx --send --binary --mem="bmp" --slot=0 myfile.bmp

Get a Bitmap from the phone and save it into a new file:

scmxx --get --binary --mem="bmp" --slot=0 --out=myfile.bmp

Get all unread (default on get) short messages and output to stdout:

scmxx --get --sms --slot=unread --out=-
scmxx -gS -o-

Send a short message directly (not stored in the phone):

scmxx --send --sms --direct --number=123 --text="test"

Get a phonebook and store it to a file:

scmxx --get --pbook --mem=SM --out=SM.pb

Modify a specific slot (33) in phonebook memory SM:

scmxx -sP --mem=SM --slot=33 --number=123 --text="test"

NOTES

CONNECTION PROBLEMS

SECURITY

ENVIRONMENT

SCMXX_TTY

see --device for decription

SCMXX_BAUD

see --baud for description

FILES

~/.scmxx/cache.pb

this file serves as lookup file during short message output (for recipient/sender address) and for number aliasing for --number on sending a short message. The format is the same as a phonebook file (slot numbers don't matter but must be present).

~/.scmxx/config

this file can contain long options (without the --), the arguments is seperated from the option name by an '='. Any amount of spaces at beginning of line, before and after the seperator are allowed. A '#' at beginning of line marks this line as comment.
Examples:
#choose a device to access
device = /dev/ttyS0
#always send SMS using UCS-2
unicode

AUTHOR

Index

NAME

SYNOPSIS

DESCRIPTION

OPTIONS

USAGE

NOTES

CONNECTION PROBLEMS

SECURITY

ENVIRONMENT

FILES

AUTHOR