New MMSGate release

New MMSGate software now available. It’s easy to use and setup. There are no costs. Includes free messaging for internal extensions.

wonder any delay in receiving SMS? voip.ms is known to have the delay issues. Thanks.

There should be no delay. Linphone with push notification is super quick. I also use the voip.ms app for comparison and find it often has a delay. Power settings do not make much difference to voip.ms app.

You cannot go around voip.ms’s SMS delays here, as using their API is using their services.

You will have no delays on your side, but after it is sent to the API, then you will (should) find the same SMS processing time delays.

Correct, the time it takes for a message to get from Verizon, T-Mobile or AT&T network to Voip.ms will always be the same. Most delays I’ve seen are with apps. If Linphone and Voip.ms apps are both online, they get the message pretty much the same time. But for some reason, I find Voip.ms app is sometimes offline and push notification does not wake it up. That aside, the primary reason I continued to work on mmsGate was for MMS support and internal extension messaging.

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This is a nice project. :blush:

Nowadays, API + AI coding capabilities gives the opportunity to many tailored solutions to specific needs. (At least it lowers a lot the required efforts to build such solutions.)

Kind regards!

Thank you. I’m proud to say that I did not use AI for any code in this project. Sometimes when searching for answers to issues, Google AI will try to offer code. They need to upgrade their warning from “use code with caution” to “use code at your peril.”

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:joy:

Remark that I have no problems in using agentic coding. But “vibe coding” is definitely problematic to me at this point in time.

As a retired software developer, I still maintain and do personal projects using Cursor, and agentic coding unlocked for me a whole new scene in software development having no more time nor the will to learn new programming languages, but having a lot of experience in building software, architecture, coding techniques, and debugging.

Cursor is my personal favourite and take. It packs a lot for “cheap”. Their Composer 2.5 is super good and can do a lot of work for a more than reasonable price. The key is always to make a plan before doing anything (using the plan mode) as it allows you to have what you want with clarity and correct stupid stuff it would do. Then code review. If you are used to vscode, you will feel at home as the code window is a fork of vscode. Since Cursor version 3, they now have a new default window that is more “agentic/chat” like instead of the “code window.” I do not use it much at this moment as I still prefer the coding window and use the AI as I need it.

Anyway, this is a nice project!

And all human-coded! :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes:

Kind regards!

Someone asked about reliability. I migrated from Google Voice (GV) and wanted an app and service that worked the same and just as reliable. I compared many apps and found Linphone to be the only one that supported MMS. It has a large user base and it very reliable. However, the standard SIP protocol is not intended for MMS. So I had to write some software to translate the MMS API from Voip.ms to the unique SIP MESSAGE Linphone expects. With that, I had my GV replacement.

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