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Sending SMS on Vodia User Portal with Bandwidth V.2 Messaging

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December 16, 2019

Bandwidth Version 1 has been discontinued, and users are encouraged to migrate to Bandwidth V2 for sending and receiving text messages with the Vodia PBX. To start, set up a Bandwidth account, purchase a number and create a messaging application with the necessary callback URL. You will need your User ID API token and secret from the Bandwidth account to integrate SMS messaging in Vodia PBX. Once configured, users can send SMS directly through the Vodia user portal. For more details, visit the Vodia blog or documentation.

Bandwidth version 1 has been discontinued. Please watch the video below to learn how to use Bandwidth V2 with the Vodia PBX.

Bandwidth version 1 has been discontinued

Sending and receiving text messages globally with V.2  Bandwidth API is now possible via the Vodia PBX user portal.
To get started you'll need to set up a Bandwidth account for messaging.  You will need to ask for SMS messaging on V1 in order for SMS to work in the Vodia user portal
Follow these steps to set up your Bandwidth Application.  Note: the URL for the bandwidth messaging should be https://app.bandwidth.com/

Purchase a Bandwidth Number

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Create a Bandwidth Application

  • Name Your application
  • Add your Messaging callback URL - example http://yourpbx/recvsms
  • Create
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Assign a number to your application

  • Click your new application
  • Under associated number, click on the + button to assign your new number
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Bandwidth Account info "Make sure your account has admin access" Otherwise you will not be able to see the API token and API secret.

Vodia PBX will need to know the following information in order to get the SMS to work properly.

  • User ID
  • API Token
  • API Secret
  • To get this information from your Bandwidth Account, you will need to click on Account.
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Copy your "User ID" you will need later.

  • Click on API Token and create a new one.

Save your API Token and API Secret.

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Vodia Messaging Feature

Navigate to your Admin --- Messaging and Notification

Under Text Messaging

  • Choose provider (Bandwidth) as the provider
  • User Account: Bandwidth 7 Digit Account
  • Application Token:
  • Application ID: Found in Application Tab
  • Application Secret : Check API credentials
  • URL prefix for receiving messages: Recvsms
  • Address for pulling MMS content: https://pbxdnsname.com
  • Default ANI for sending SMS messages: Bandwidth enabled SMS number

User portal and SMS

Make sure you're running the latest Vodia PBX.  Here's a link to the latest build https://doc.vodia.com/releasenotes

Log in to your user portal and type in a cell phone number under the home screen and click the message icon.

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You will be presented with the chat window. Type in your SMS message and press enter on your keyboard.

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