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I recently got a RPI coming from the land of Arduino, and I was wondering as I've been searching Google for this has anyone found a way to tether their phone to their Pi. I'm looking to use my phone as a way to send MMS/SMS, so basically my RPI will send a signal to the phone via the usb wire to transmit some data via SMS. I'm looking into this as it will be more robust in my case than using a 3G USB Modem - since I won't need the USB powered adapter, etc. (I would assume this is possible except I haven't gotten around to trying it since I only have rev A with 1 usb port which I am using for keyboard/mice, and I'm awaiting B in the mail, so I thought I'd ask to see if there is a good way to go about doing this possibly.)

eWizardII
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This video explains the process quite well. However, it uses email to send a SMS message instead of tethering to a phone:

  1. Make sure you can use the mail command (sudo apt-get install mailutils) and setup your Raspberry Pi to send emails from the command line.
  2. You need to look up the SMS gateway for the phone you want to send an SMS to. An example of a number converted to an email would be 1234567890@vtext.com (for Verizon).
  3. Send the email/SMS: $ echo “Test text” | mail -s “Test Mail” 1234567890@vtext.com
syb0rg
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I looked at the answers you have so far which are not very useful. They have all missed the point that you do not have an internet connection. I am wanting to do the same thing as you. Have you found a solution?

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