08-21-2020, 05:19 PM
After playing around with it for a bit... I have been casually looking at the code for projects like
https://sourceforge.net/projects/mmsclient/files/
and
http://python-mms.sourceforge.net/
before testing the code already set forth by such projects.
My hopes are to sort out / grab some inspiration from the above projects. Then try and work out a starting point such as a "manual" script that is a little less "manual" than typing out every step.
As noted the sms notification for an mms is already available via modem manager. As a quick show, you can see the sms notifications via modem-manager(-gui) while chatty does not show them. From my poking around these sms notification messages are a "link" to mms data file on the mmsc server. While having the wifi off and using the mobile data as your internet connection you are able to connect to the mmsc server through the mms url/proxy settings via curl (and wget???). Using the string sent via the sms notification message to finish off the url. I was only able to get this to work once for me, and I did not work out how to decode the mms data file. There also seems to be an expiry time frame for the mms data file to remain on the mmsc server; As well, seemingly only one attempt to connect and download the file using the notification link from the sms message.
Just sharing my random poking around in case it is useful information for others to try as well. I am not likely to bring any level of completion to this and definitely not in a timely manner or respectable codeset compared to what is already taking place.
https://sourceforge.net/projects/mmsclient/files/
and
http://python-mms.sourceforge.net/
before testing the code already set forth by such projects.
My hopes are to sort out / grab some inspiration from the above projects. Then try and work out a starting point such as a "manual" script that is a little less "manual" than typing out every step.
As noted the sms notification for an mms is already available via modem manager. As a quick show, you can see the sms notifications via modem-manager(-gui) while chatty does not show them. From my poking around these sms notification messages are a "link" to mms data file on the mmsc server. While having the wifi off and using the mobile data as your internet connection you are able to connect to the mmsc server through the mms url/proxy settings via curl (and wget???). Using the string sent via the sms notification message to finish off the url. I was only able to get this to work once for me, and I did not work out how to decode the mms data file. There also seems to be an expiry time frame for the mms data file to remain on the mmsc server; As well, seemingly only one attempt to connect and download the file using the notification link from the sms message.
Just sharing my random poking around in case it is useful information for others to try as well. I am not likely to bring any level of completion to this and definitely not in a timely manner or respectable codeset compared to what is already taking place.