Send An Sms Message To A Phone - Digi XBee User Manual

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Send an SMS message to a phone

The XBee Cellular Modem can send and receive Short Message Service (SMS) transmissions (text
messages) while in Transparent mode. This allows you to send and receive text messages to and from
an SMS capable device such as a mobile phone.
The following table explains the AT commands that you use in this example.
Command
AP (API Enable)
IP (IP Protocol)
P#
(Destination Phone
Number)
TD (Text Delimiter) D (0x0D)
PH (Module's SIM
phone number)
1. Ensure that the device is set up correctly with the SIM card installed and the antennas
connected as described in
2. Open XCTU and
3. Click the Configuration working mode
4. Select a device from the Radio Modules list. XCTU displays the current firmware settings for
that device.
5. To switch to SMS communication, in the IP field, select 2 and click the Write button
6. To enter your cell phone number, in the P# field, type the <target phone number> and click
the Write button. Type the phone number using only numbers, with no dashes. You can use the
+ prefix if necessary. The target phone number is the phone number you wish to send a text to.
7. In the TD field, type D and click the Write button.
8. Note the number in the PH field; it is the XBee Cellular Modem phone number, which you see
when it sends an SMS to your phone.
9. Click the Consoles working mode button
device. For instructions on using the Console, see the
10. Click the Open button
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Value Description
0 Set the device's API mode to Transparent mode.
2 Set the expected transmission mode to SMS communication.
The target phone number that you send to, for example, your
<Target
cellular phone. See
phone
on using this command.
number>
The text delimiter to be used for Transparent mode, as an ASCII hex
code. No information is sent until this character is entered, unless
the maximum number of characters has been reached. Set to 0 to
disable text delimiter checking. Set to D for a carriage return.
Read The value that represents your device's phone number as supplied
only by the SIM card. This is used to send text messages to the device
from another cellular device.
Connect the hardware.
Add a device.
to open a serial connection to the device.
Send an SMS message to a phone
P# (Destination Phone Number)
button.
on the toolbar to open a serial console to the
AT console topic in the
for instructions
.
XCTU User Guide.
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