As a preliminary exercise I “Installed” rpi2 with FreeBSD11.0-Current – i.e. I found a pre-built image and wrote it to an 8Gb SD-card which was subsequently inserted into the rpi.
After the usual changing of default passwords, removal of unwanted user accounts and general hardening – I proceeded to the SMS-project :
Step 1 :
pkg install smstools
echo ‘smsd_enable=”YES” >> /etc/rc.conf
vi /usr/local/etc/smsd.conf :
devices = GSM1
logfile = /var/log/smsd/smsd.log
loglevel = 7
user = uucp
group = dialer
[GSM1]
device = /dev/cuaU0
incoming = yes
#pin = 1111
Made sure that den device line contains the correct port.
Now check the log for contents :
tail -f /var/log/smsd/smsd.log &
and start the service :
/usr/local/etc/rc.d/smsd start
The service will shortly empty the sms-memory of the phone into :
/var/spool/sms/incoming/
Where a file will be created for each sms – these can now be parsed.