Gammu (software)

Infobox Software
name = Gammu
developer = Michal Čihař
released = initial release|2002|04|14
frequently_updated = yes
programming language = C
operating system = Cross-platform
language = Multilingual (8)
genre = Mobile phone management
license = GPL
website = http://www.gammu.org

Gammu is a project which encompasses applications, scripts and drivers for managing various functions on cellular phones and similar devices.

It is a stable and mature codebase with support for many models available on the market and provides functions unavailable in other similar projects. Long term development is oriented towards making a shared API for classes of device rather than supporting single phone models (which are eventually made obsolete with the arrival of new models).

Gammu itself works in command line or as a daemon, but there exists GUI written in wxPython called Wammu.

It's available under GNU GPL.

Features

* Use to Activate Nokia network monitor
* Supports sending SMS (with delivery report), picture messages, can send/receive ring tones (as SMS)
* Phonebook
* Dial/Receive calls
* Calendar
* Todo list
* Notes
* File system manipulations

Can connect using serial/USB cables, infrared, Bluetooth.

Supported phones

* Many Nokia models.
* Alcatel BE5 (501/701), BF5 (715), BH4 (535/735).
* AT capable phones (Siemens, Nokia, Alcatel, Motorola, Sony-Ericssson, IPAQ).
* OBEX and IrMC capable phones (Sony-Ericsson, Motorola).
* Symbian phones through gnapplet.

History

This project has originally forked from Gnokii and up to version 0.58 has been named MyGnokii2. Then need for better name arrived and Gammu was chosen as an acronym for Gammu All Mobile Management Utilities, without knowing that Gammu from "Heretics of Dune" written by Frank Herbert exists.

Current project leader is Michal Čihař.

See also

* OpenSync - Open Source synchronization framework
* Gnokii - a program for communicating with mobile phones
* BitPim - Open Source CDMA management and synchronization software
* Wammu - GUI for Gammu

External links

* Project home page: http://www.gammu.org/
* Database of supported phones: http://cihar.com/gammu/phonedb/