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[Lars Helge Øverland <larshelge@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

just wanted to highlight a nifty Android app which you can set up as a
standalone SMS gateway for testing the SMS functionality in DHIS 2. Its
made by Lars Roland - you can get it from google
play<https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.dhis2.androidsms>or
from here:

http://www.dhis2.org/appstore

The app basically looks for incoming SMS arriving at the Android phone,
parses them to look for keywords and forwards these messages to your DHIS 2
server using HTTP. You can configure a list of SMS commands that should be
forwarded to DHIS 2.

If you for example have created an SMS called 'Report' command within DHIS
2 under Mobile Configuration -> SMS Commands, and you configure the app to
forward any SMS starting with 'Report' to DHIS 2, you can use this to test
data entry by sending for example 'Report A1 B2 C3' to your mobile phone.

If your Android phone has an IP address that is accessible to your DHIS 2
server you can also use this Android App to send SMS messages from DHIS 2
to users. The URL to configure into DHISv2 is shown on the bottom of the
app screen when running the app. This URL is configured in Mobile
Configuration -> SMS Service Configuration -> Add Gateway -> Generic HTTP
Gateway inside DHIS 2.

regards,

Lars