hilink-modem

A node.js wrapper around the Huawei HiLink REST API

Setup

npm install hilink-modem

Usage

const Modem = require('hilink-modem')
 
const modem = new Modem()
 
modem.sendMessage({
  reciever: '[phone]',
  text: 'Hello from node world!'
}).then(status => console.log(status))

API

new Modem(options)

Type: function

Returns an instance of Modem

options

Type: object

Option	Default	Type	Description
modemIp	192.168.8.1	string	The IP address of the modem
messageDelay	1	number	The number of seconds to wait between looking for new messages in Modem.onMessage
bigMessageDelay	30	number	The number of seconds to wait before looking for a new message after first receiving a multi-part SMS (The HiLink API initially returns scrambled messages after first receiving a multi-part SMS)
sendMessageStatusDelay	1	number	The number of seconds to wait between checking status of message sent with Modem.sendMessage
waitForPendingRequest	true	boolean	If a new request is started while there is a pending request to the API, the new request will not be executed until the pending request is no longer pending

Modem.sendMessage(options)

Type: function

Returns a Promise

Send an SMS text message

modem.sendMessage({
  reciever: '[phone]',
  text: 'Hello from node world!'
}).then(status => console.log(status))

options

Type: object

Option	Type	Description
receiver	string	The telephone number of the receiver
text	string	The text of the message

Modem.getMessages(options)

Type: function

Returns a Promise

Get SMS text messages

modem.getMessages({type: 'received'})
    .then(messages => console.log(messages))
 
modem.getMessages({type: 'sent'})
    .then(messages => console.log(messages))
 
modem.getMessages({type: 'drafted'})
    .then(messages => console.log(messages))

options

Type: object

Option	Default	Type	Allowed values	Description
type	received	string	received|sent|drafted	The mailbox to get messages from
count	20	number	1 to 20	The number of messages to get
page	1	number	1 to {pageCount}	The page to get messages from
sort	ascending	string	ascending|descending	The sort direction

Modem.onMessage(callback)

Type: function

Start listening for incoming SMS text messages

modem.onMessage(message => {
  console.log('recieved message:', message)
})

callback

Type: function

A callback function that will be called when a new message is received. Async functions are supported

Modem.apiRequest(endpoint, options)

Type: function

Returns a Promise

Make a custom request to the HiLink API, with tokens provided.

If you use this to write a method not covered by this package, feel free to make a PR!

modem.apiRequest('/sms/sms-count').then(console.log)

endpoint

Type: string

The endpoint to request. Will be prepended with /api

options

Type: object

Option	Default	Type	Allowed values	Description
method	GET	string	GET|POST|PUT|PATCH|HEAD|DELETE	The request method
body	undefined	object		The request body in JSON

The HiLink API only accepts XML. body will be converted to XML, see example below.

From this:

const body = {
  Ascending: 1,
  BoxType: 1,
  PageIndex: 1,
  ReadCount: 20,
  SortType: 0,
  UnreadPreferred: 1
}

To this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<request>
   <Ascending>1</Ascending>
   <BoxType>1</BoxType>
   <PageIndex>1</PageIndex>
   <ReadCount>20</ReadCount>
   <SortType>0</SortType>
   <UnreadPreferred>1</UnreadPreferred>
</request>

Devices

See https://github.com/zentus/hilink-modem/issues/1

License

MIT