Beta support: MMS on chatty/mmsd on Modem Manager - help/testing wanted!

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Got mmsd-tng installed from sid and pulling MMS messages to Modem Manager with SMSWAP set to true.  Can confirm Mint Mobile (US T-Mobile MVNO) works. Oddly Mobian defaults Mint mobile sim to T-Mobile's mobilenet APN so had to change the apn for the modem to

Code:

Name: Internet/MMS2
APN: Wholesale

and ~/.mms/modemmanager/mms

Code:

[Modem Manager]
CarrierMMSC=http://wholesale.mmsmvno.com/mms/wapenc
MMS_APN=Wholesale
CarrierMMSProxy=NULL
DefaultModemNumber=NULL
AutoProcessOnConnection=true
AutoProcessSMSWAP=true

[Settings]
UseDeliveryReports=false
TotalMaxAttachmentSize=110000
MaxAttachments=25
AutoCreateSMIL=false

Running into redirect issues attempting to clone chatty from the /wip/sadiq/mm-account branch.  Going to attempt the python messenger method to verify completed delivery. But great news is 18 hours on and my modem hasn't clogged or crashed.  Thanks for the great work.

 


I also use Mint and I've tried off and on to get mmsd working but it never quite worked right. The messages would show in ~/.mms/modemmanager/ but when I tried to read them with any of the options listed on the mobian wiki there was always an error. Well, when I read through your settings I realized what my issue might be. I had been setting MMS_APN to Mint or MintMMS instead of setting it to the APN for data which is Wholesale. When I did that and restarted mmsd, it processed through all my mms messages sitting in ~/.mms/modemmanager and they popped right up in my compiled version of chatty. So, thanks for sharing!

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After getting mms setup on mobian, I decided to try my luck on setting everything up on my preferred pinephone distro (I run arch btw). While getting mmsd setup I built vgmms (https://git.sr.ht/~anteater/vgmms) on my pinebook pro (it took 40 minutes but that's still less than half the time it takes to build on the pinephone). Vgmms is pretty barebones and doesn't seem to display your contacts names, but it does send and receive picture messages and group chats along with regular sms. It's also snappier than chatty. Has anyone else tried out vgmms? Are there other alternative chat programs out there?

Thanks to everyone who's worked to get this as far as we are now!