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HOWTO: Receive SMS via 4G/LTE Huawei stick on Raspberry Pi 4 and forward them via Telegram

I live abroad and have only 1 sim card slot in my phone. It holds the SIM card of the country that I am in right now. But I also have another SIM card from my home country which receives my banking SMS codes. I can't afford to lose the "home" SIM card, so I decided to keep it in my house and forward the SMS messages to my main phone and computer via Telegram (just like Whatsapp, but so much better).

I also made a choice to use a 4G/LTE stick instead of 3G, because the 3G signal in my area is getting worse in worse due to operators upgrading their equipment.

Prerequisites

Raspberry Pi 4
Huawei E8372 (but can be any similar)

Step 1 - Get the Huawei card to work properly with Raspberry

Use ffmpeg to stream video from a dahua 4300s to a file or files

You can use ffmpeg to directly pull frames off of a dahua 4300s at full resolution. May be a good alternative to pricey dvrs which likely cannot record at full resolution, may not work with the camera, or are prohibitevly expensive

Simple Stream to file

Simple stream to file. Full resolution

ffmpeg -loglevel debug -rtsp_transport tcp -i "rtsp://admin:[email protected]:554/live" \

-c copy -map 0 foo.mp4

	#!/usr/bin/env python
	# -- coding: utf-8 --

	import socket
	import subprocess
	import time

	RUNNING = False
	ONLINE = True