Read SMS from Huawei Router

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Hello,
I would like to read SMS from my Huawei router. I have already integrated my router within HASSIO. It exposes the following entities but impossible to read the SMS received:
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I have visibility regarding the number of SMS received within the router but I do not know their content/ their message.
My use case would be to trigger on automation when a special word/phrase is received. For example: “Open door” will open the door of my appartment building. This would allow my girlfriend/ or a friend to enter without the need of having the companion app by just sending a SMS with a specific keyword that then triggers an action !:slight_smile:
Thanks for any help !

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I would be also interested if someone could help on that :slight_smile:

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I have a Huawei E8372 and managed to read incoming SMS messages from the device. I thought I would share my findings here - I used the Huawei LTE integration and AppDaemon to achieve this.

Once the Huawei LTE integration was setup I created an AppDaemon app which monitors the SMS inbox count for changes, it also checks to see if the inbox has anything in it every 3 minutes. If it finds a message it stores that value in a input text helper and then deletes it from the device.

You can then use an automation to monitor the input text helper for changes as a trigger.

When setting up AppDaemon you need to include the “huawei-modem-api-client” as a Python package

I’m not really familliar with python but managed to piece this together from various samples and trial/error.

import appdaemon.plugins.hass.hassapi as hass
import huaweisms.api.user
import huaweisms.api.sms



USER = "####"
PASSWORD = "####"
SENSORINBOX = "sensor.e8372_sms_inbox_device"
INPUTTEXT = "input_text.sms_sender"

class haSMS(hass.Hass):
    def initialize(self):
        self.listen_state(self.hasms, SENSORINBOX)
        self.run_every(self.hasms_timer, self.datetime(), 180)

    def hasms(self, entity, attribute, old, new, kwargs):
        ctx = huaweisms.api.user.quick_login(USER, PASSWORD)
        self.log(ctx)
        # output: <ApiCtx modem_host=192.168.8.1>

        msgs = huaweisms.api.sms.get_sms(ctx, 1, 1, 1)
        #format (ctx, Box number, page number, how many to get)
        #Box numbers - inbox = 1, outbox = 2

        nummsgs = int(msgs['response']['Count'])
        
        if nummsgs > 0:
            for k in range(0,nummsgs):
                idx=int(msgs['response']['Messages']['Message'][k]['Index'])
                content=str(msgs['response']['Messages']['Message'][k]['Content'])
                num=str(msgs['response']['Messages']['Message'][k]['Phone'])
                self.log("SMS from" + num + " msg=" + content)
                self.set_state(INPUTTEXT, state = "SMS from " + num + " - " + content)
                huaweisms.api.sms.delete_sms(ctx,idx)
                self.log("Message deleted")

# Additional logic that runs every 180 seconds
    def hasms_timer(self, kwargs):
        ctx = huaweisms.api.user.quick_login(USER, PASSWORD)
        self.log(ctx)

        msgs = huaweisms.api.sms.get_sms(ctx, 1, 1, 1)
        nummsgs = int(msgs['response']['Count'])
        
        if nummsgs > 0:
            for k in range(0,nummsgs):
                idx=int(msgs['response']['Messages']['Message'][k]['Index'])
                content=str(msgs['response']['Messages']['Message'][k]['Content'])
                num=str(msgs['response']['Messages']['Message'][k]['Phone'])
                self.log("SMS from" + num + " msg=" + content)
                self.set_state("input_text.sms_sender", state = "SMS from " + num + " - " + content)
                huaweisms.api.sms.delete_sms(ctx,idx)
                self.log("Message deleted")