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Mirror of SVN-based "asterisk's huawei 3g dongle channel driver" project with my Asterisk 10 and 11 compatibility patches (asterisk10 and asterisk11 branches)


chan_dongle channel driver for Huawei UMTS cards

WARNING:

This channel driver is in alpha stage. I am not responsible if this channel driver will eat your money on your SIM card or do any unpredicted things.

Please use a recent Linux kernel, 2.6.33+ recommended. If you use FreeBSD, 8.0+ recommended.

This channel driver should work with the folowing UMTS cards:

  • Huawei K3715
  • Huawei E169 / K3520
  • Huawei E155X
  • Huawei E175X
  • Huawei K3765

Check complete list in: http://code.google.com/p/asteris-chan-dongle/wiki/Supported_devices_eng

Before using the channel driver make sure to:

  • Disable PIN code on your SIM card

Supported features:

  • Place voice calls and terminate voice calls
  • Send SMS and receive SMS
  • Send and receive USSD commands / messages

Some useful AT commands: AT+CCWA=0,0,1 #disable call-waiting AT+CFUN=1,1 #reset dongle AT^CARDLOCK="" #unlock code AT^SYSCFG=13,0,3FFFFFFF,0,3 #modem 2G only, automatic search any band, no roaming AT^U2DIAG=0 #enable modem function

Here is an example for the dialplan:

[dongle-incoming] exten => sms,1,Verbose(Incoming SMS from ${CALLERID(num)} ${BASE64_DECODE(${SMS_BASE64})}) exten => sms,n,System(echo '${STRFTIME(${EPOCH},,%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S)} - ${DONGLENAME} - ${CALLERID(num)}: ${BASE64_DECODE(${SMS_BASE64})}' >> /var/log/asterisk/sms.txt) exten => sms,n,Hangup()

exten => ussd,1,Verbose(Incoming USSD: ${BASE64_DECODE(${USSD_BASE64})}) exten => ussd,n,System(echo '${STRFTIME(${EPOCH},,%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S)} - ${DONGLENAME}: ${BASE64_DECODE(${USSD_BASE64})}' >> /var/log/asterisk/ussd.txt) exten => ussd,n,Hangup()

exten => s,1,Dial(SIP/2001@othersipserver) exten => s,n,Hangup()

[othersipserver-incoming]

exten => _X.,1,Dial(Dongle/r1/${EXTEN}) exten => _X.,n,Hangup

you can also use this:

Call using a specific group: exten => _X.,1,Dial(Dongle/g1/${EXTEN})

Call using a specific group in round robin: exten => _X.,1,Dial(Dongle/r1/${EXTEN})

Call using a specific dongle: exten => _X.,1,Dial(Dongle/dongle0/${EXTEN})

Call using a specific provider name: exten => _X.,1,Dial(Dongle/p:PROVIDER NAME/${EXTEN})

Call using a specific IMEI: exten => _X.,1,Dial(Dongle/i:123456789012345/${EXTEN})

Call using a specific IMSI prefix: exten => _X.,1,Dial(Dongle/s:25099203948/${EXTEN})

How to store your own number:

dongle cmd dongle0 AT+CPBS="ON" dongle cmd dongle0 AT+CPBW=1,"+123456789",145

Other CLI commands:

dongle reset dongle restart gracefully dongle restart now dongle restart when convenient dongle show device dongle show devices dongle show version dongle sms number message dongle ussd ussd dongle stop gracefully dongle stop now dongle stop when convenient dongle start dongle restart gracefully dongle restart now dongle restart when convenient dongle remove gracefully dongle remove now dongle remove when convenient dongle reload gracefully dongle reload now dongle reload when convenient

For reading installation notes please look to INSTALL file.

For additional information about Huawei dongle usage look to chan_dongle Wiki at http://wiki.e1550.mobi and chan_dongle project home at http://code.google.com/p/asterisk-chan-dongle/