At work, we just got a large number exotic cellular devices that need to be programmed. To do this, you plug in a standard home telephone and dial a series of numbers, with pauses between them.
To me, this is a task that begs to be automated, and we’ve got one Linux desktop (a test Asterisk machine) with a modem on it.
So, how can I automate this task?
Simply send the necessary AT commands to your modem via the modem’s corresponding
/devdevice, e.g.ATDT 12,456567,21