USB mobile dongle

Has anyone got a USB mobile dongle pto work with RO?

I use Thomas ComCentre with PiTops and Pandora and a Vodafone surfstick…
Look here
and here ;-) … find me here

The second link in your post talks about using ComCentre with RO but then links on to a Linux page.

Can RiscOS use the ComCentre to send and receive text messages (SMS)?

Is a RISC OS article (my) in a Pi paper.
Yes, works.

Thank you. I think I will give that a try. Sending and Receiving SMS would be very useful.

Do you recommend any particular USB dongle?

Here I post a small video.
You find the working Dongle in ComCentre driver, I mean. Will take a look tomorrow morning. 4G (and 5G) are not supported. The Dongle or the phone (have try two old Nokia) must be usable like a Modem via ppp. SMS is working if your card Support this. My new card is data only.

OK. Thanks. I think I will have time this evening to try it with my old Nokia phone (if the battery still works).

EE pay-as-you-go data SIM cards will allow a small number of SMS messages if using the right modem.

I use a TP_Link Archer MR200 router, which can send SMS. But what I really need is for the Ras Pi to receive SMS directly. The Ras Pi can send SMS by other means.

Any information you find if you search ComCentre in this forum.
Thomas send a answer if you have a question.
The first set up is a bit fiddely. Any things are changed since I use it.
I have it working on my PiTop V2 with a 5.24 based card and on my Titanium it works also but I copy my settings.
One of my nokia settings should be inside. The second was the same with oder vendor-product_id. Have use my ZTE in de, it, at… no problems.
Keep my fingers crossed.

Have take a look inside the archive you needed (COMCentre.zip, USBDvEmu.zip, USBDevSwp.zip).
In USBDevSwp.Devices you find the theoretical supported devices. In ComCentre.Devices you find the more or less testet and used devices by user.
A lot of Dongles are simulate a CD device. The content are the Win driver. USBDevSwp swap this dongles to modem mode. Any you can swap manual by dismount the CD device.
My ZTE I have hacked so I th modem mode is default.
Witch Nokia you will use? I mean I have try a 6700 and a 3109c.

I finally get time to try ComCentre ….
…. and now I can’t find a download link for it.

Anybody know of a working link?

Anybody know of a working link?

The link above in Raik’s posting is correct IIRC – however, Thomas insists on hosting his stuff on RISC OS on a RPi at home, which means it is more often offline than you might expect (DynDNS failure, RISC OS failure, WebJames failure, Internet connection failure, Router failure, Hacker DoS attack ongoing…).

Ultimate control sometimes comes at high cost :-)

The link above in Raik’s posting is correct IIRC – however ….

OK Thanks. I will keep trying.

I am not sure that I would regard what you describe as ultimate control

Have linked my contact form in the old post.
If you send me an mail, I can send the latest files if the site is down longer.

which means it is more often offline than you might expect (DynDNS failure, RISC OS failure, WebJames failure, Internet connection failure, Router failure, Hacker DoS attack ongoing…).

You make Germany sound like the wild west of Internet!

My heyrick.ddns.net server is the same, and it’s only down when:

• (temporarily) when I am doing stuff with it that causes crashes
• (a little longer) if there’s a brownout, the Pi doesn’t hiccup, the Livebox reboots
• or for a few hours or so if there’s a thunderstorm or if I’m going out and storms are forecast
• (rarely) if the stuff all reboots but the Vonets doesn’t see the WiFi signal

I’d say uptime is “most days of the year”; I wouldn’t host stuff on it if I didn’t think I could leave it to do its job.

As for the various reasons:

• No-IP seems fairly reliable
• RISC OS is able to be left alone to get on with stuff these days :-)
• I don’t have WebJames crashing on me (but then I don’t have the php build, maybe that’s the secret?)
• Internet seems pretty reliable these days – my radio is streaming me Prince right now
• Router failure – touch wood, this Livebox actually works ;-)
• I get Russians, Israelis, and Chinese visiting regularly. All those exploits that look for phpMyAdmin aren’t going to work. I’d dump the connection for the IP ranges of their entire countries, but that would mean being able to rebuild WebJames. And, besides, looking in the logs, it looks like Yandex is my only friend…

Bloody hell. A bluetit just flew into the mesh screen in my window and gave me a right bollocking. Well excuse me, this is my room!

You make Germany sound like the wild west of Internet!

My guess is that there was a better communication infrastructure in the Wild West.

You know that, as of last year, Germany has “closed the gap” in mobile internet quality (speed, coverage) to…wait for it…Albania! I kid you not. Some say however that our streets are of even worse quality.

I host my site at home too, and uptime is fairly high. I’m actually hosting on Windows 10, so most downtime is probably due to updates! The machine isn’t used for day-to-day use (it’s just a headless “server” in the basement) so it basically just chugs along. Although the SSD randomly failed a couple of months ago which knocked it out for a day or so…

Edit: I had to tempt fate, didn’t I? Guess whose Internet connection went down for a couple of hours today…

The link above in Raik’s posting is correct IIRC …