Wammu and Gammu News

Windows build maintainer wanted

As you might have noticed, Gammu 1.26.91 has been released without Windows binaries for Python bindings. The reason is simple - my cross compilation setup broke again and I don't have time to fix it. Cross building Python extensions was always tricky, but it is getting harder and harder with each Python version - it requires newer MSVC support libraries to link with and it introduces various complications.

Doing that natively on Windows, should not be that hard. You need to have Visual Studio and you need some experiences with building things for Windows. If you want to help, just contact us on mailing list.

Published on Nov. 19, 2009 by Michal Čihař

Gammu 1.26.91

Full list of changes:

• Fixed parsing of vCards with lowercase types (bug #1006).
• Handle forward references in Nokia phonebook (bug #1009).
• Save timestamp to SMS backup for all messages.
• Store PDU type in SMS backup.
• More flexible handling of exclude/include lists in SMSD.
• Add support for external list of exclude/include numbers (bug#1008).
• Workaround decoding of messages padded by 0xFF by phone.
• Force enabling of OBEX for SE S312 (bug#1016).
• Recognize Motorola A1200 error replies (bug#1019).
• Disable AT/Obex for Motorola A1200e (bug#1019).
• Properly detect if phone does not support AT+MODE (bug#1019).
• Disable AT/Obex for Motorola E790 (bug#1018).
• Add option to filter messages by SMSC (bug#1020).
• Implement retries when waiting for message prompt.
• Fixed logic of detecting incoming calls.
• Fixed loading of non ASCII messages from files in SMSD (bug#1011).
• Added example showing reading of messages.
• Build Windows release with Python 2.6.
• Fixed compilation in MSVC because of missing S_ISDIR.
• Fixed parsing of different Samsung reply (bug#1038).
• Proper error code when SMSC is empty (bug#1032).
• Fixed compilation of python-gammu in MSVC.

You can download it from http://wammu.eu/download/.

Published on Nov. 19, 2009 by Michal Čihař

Kalkun 0.1.4beta

Added Features:

• Send message to more than one person (on Compose)
• Validation
• Digital clock
• Plugins :
• Blacklist Number => Block message from specific number
• Server Alert => Alert you whenever your service (eq: Web server, Mail server) is down

Added FAQ and PLUGIN section. Please read CHANGELOG for details.

You can download it here.

Published on Oct. 26, 2009 by Michal Čihař

Roadmap available

Roadmap for Gammu and Wammu has been just published. Right now it contains just basic information about next releases, but in future it is expected to include more details about next few releases. It will allow users and application developers to be prepared for some changes longer in advance. Also if you are interested in helping with some listed feature, you are welcome to help!

Published on Oct. 22, 2009 by Michal Čihař

Gammu 1.26.90

Full list of changes:

• Fixed parsing of SMS with empty recipient (bug #998).
• Correct setting of time on Huawei phones.
• Addnew command can now change memory type being used.
• Proper handling of locations and memory type in vCards.
• Added IDs for several recent Sony-Ericsson phones.
• Fix decoding of phone numbers in some cases (bug #999).
• Replace MD5 implementation with public domain one (bug #964).
• Huawei E17X has broken UCS-2, do not use it (bug #962).
• Do not fail if phone does not support extended SMS params (bug #927).
• Added support for Samsung calendar (bug #839).
• Do not choke on OK in message text.
• Add ID of Nokia 6020b (bug #1004).
• Fix decoding of SMS with extended characters.
• Fixed handling of DCT4 specific functions.
• Add workaround for especially broken Ubinetics GDC201.

You can download it from http://wammu.eu/download/.

Published on Oct. 12, 2009 by Michal Čihař