Send SMS later/scheduled

[ohnonot]

I’m pretty sure I have seen this mentioned somewhere but my search fu is not good today.

An app would be best, or a known-to-work way to cobble together some commands.

Has anybody ever succeeded to auto-send an SMS after some time or at a certain time?

[nephros]

Sending SMS via CLI is here:

• Using usermod to add defaultuser to a new group doesn't work - #5 by Beethoven
• Starting sms with dbus-send stopped working on 4.6
• Sending line breaks in SMS over dbus-send? - #4 by ohnonot

As for timing the sending event, good ole UNIX at should work. Or, if you like systemd things, systemd-run --user something something

[ohnonot]

Thanks & success!

Steps:

• add defaultuser to the sailfish-radio group:
  devel-su usermod -a -G sailfish-radio defaultuser
• log out/in. For manual sending over ssh that was enough, but for systemd-run more is required - just reboot, or use root privileges.
• Use systemd-run to run at a certain datetime:
  systemd-run --user --on-calendar="2025-02-12 19:37:06" dbus-send --system --print-reply --dest=org.ofono /ril_0 org.ofono.MessageManager.SendMessage string:"+9876543210" string:"The message"

The crucial part is that I can close the terminal & ssh connection after issuing that command.

The links above include a different dbus command (involving the messaging app) that does not work anymore.

Sending directly via ofono means that the message does not show up in your messaging app, or any other logs afaics.

This could easily be pressed into a simple app (or, knowing me, a simple shell script).

[branja6]

Using the Situations app?

[crun]

Pretty basic and useful feature,

This is yet another feature that my phone had 25 years ago, and doesn’t now.