Node SMS Gateway

Introduction

Node SMS Gateway is SMS Gateway application which connects to Node SMS Terminal and provide GSM communication queuing such as SMS and USSD. It is also acts as proxy to other party via its socket communication.

Node SMS Gateway can be extended with other functionality using its plugin interface.

For example, see included Prepaid plugin.

Installation

Stand alone installation is available using GIT.

$ cd ~
$ git clone https://github.com/tohenk/node-sms-gateway.git
$ cd node-sms-gateway
$ npm install

A web interface installation is needed as its now a separate package.

$ npm install @ntlab/sms-gateway-ui

Install plugins as you need.

$ npm install @ntlab/sms-gateway-prepaid

To run application (On some Linux distribution replace node with nodejs)

$ node app.js --plugins=@ntlab/sms-gateway-prepaid

Configuration

Node SMS Gateway uses JSON configuration named config.json in the working directory, but it can be told to use configuration elsewhere.

database

Set Sequelize database connection parameter.

{
    "database": {
        "dialect": "mysql",
        "host": "localhost",
        "port": 3306,
        "user": "username",
        "password": "password",
        "database": "smsgw",
        "timezone": "Asia/Jakarta"
    }
}

secret

Set socket connection secret. Each socket client must send auth with secret and will be checked against this value. If it matches, connection accepted, otherwise connection will be closed.

{
    "secret": "CHANGEME"
}

security

Set web interface username and password. Default username and password is both admin. To secure your instance, it is advised to change default password.

{
    "security": {
        "username": "admin",
        "password": "admin"
    }
}

pools

Node SMS Gateway can connects to multiple terminals. Each terminal can be configured as shown below.

{
    "pools": [
        {
            "name": "localhost",
            "url": "http://localhost:8000",
            "key": "CHANGEME"
        }
    ]
}

Command line options

$ node app.js --help
Usage:
  node app.js [options]

Options:
--config=config-file  Read app configuration from file
--url=url, -u=url     Use terminal at URL if no configuration supplied
--key=key, -k=key     Terminal secret key
--port=port, -p=port  Set web server port to listen
--plugins=plugins     Load plugins at start, separate each plugin with comma

Web interface

Node SMS Gateway web interface can be accessed via port 8080 (default) or as specified by the command line options above.

Todo

• Socket and web interface currently doesn't support https