Send Unicode (USC2) SMS with AT commands - unicode

I am trying to send Unicode SMS using at commands and USC2 encoding. But it doesn't work, as I get errors. Here is my inputs:
AT
OK
AT+CSCS = ?
+CSCS: ("IRA","GSM","UCS2")
AT+CSCS="UCS2"
OK
AT+CMGF=1
OK
AT+CSMP=1,167,0,8 //So this one doesnt work, let's try with 17,167,0,8
ERROR
AT+CSMP=17,167,0,8
OK
AT+CMGS="+370********"
ERROR
Or maybe I should use PDU mode to achieve this?
I have tried using older modem, and USC2 works in that one, however not in one im using. But im sure this conflicting modem supports USC2.

I found I just needed to encode my number in AT+CMGS to UCS2, and now it works:
AT+CMGS="002B003300370030************************"

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Trying to use pyserial to talk to a Korad KD3005P power supply. (Using Python 3.6)
import serial
ser = serial.Serial('/dev/ttyACM0', baudrate=9600, bytesize=8, parity='N', stopbits=1, timeout=1)
ser.write(b'VSET1:2')
ser.write(b'VOUT1?')
response = ser.readline()
print(response)
VSET1:2 sets the voltage to 2 volts
VOUT1? tells the device to return the current voltage.
But all I get from the VOUT1? part seems to be:
b''
Stuff I've checked or tried without success:
The device works - I can talk to the device and get responses successfully with these commands through a serial terminal like CuteCom
Pyserial is kinda working - if I run the above program, the VSET1:2 does change the voltage.
I've tried different timeouts
I've tried ser.read() instead with various bit lengths
I've tried putting the read commands in a while loop
Any suggestions?
Oh.
It's a timing thing of some kind. Removing the VSET command or putting a time.sleep() command in between them and voila.. I get a response.
I'm going to mark this resolved but if anyone can enlighten me as to the nuances of this, thanks.

Openpanel and symbol communication not working

I am trying to make a patch that plays audio when a bang is pressed. I have put a symbol so that I don't need to keep reimporting the file. However it works sometimes but not all the time.
A warning in the Pd console reads: Start requested with no prior open
However I have imported an audio file
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Use [trigger] to get the order-of-execution correct.
One problem is, that whenever you send a [1( to [readsf~] you must have sent an [open ...( message directly beforehand.
Even if you have just successfully opened a file, but then stopped it (with [0() or played it through (so it has been closed automatically), you have to send the filename again.
The real problem is, that your messages are out of order: you should never have a fan-out (that is: connecting a message outlet to multiple inlets), as this will create undefined behavior.
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How to create MPEG2 Transport Stream Pipeline Using Python and Gstreamer

In developing a streaming audio application I used the gst-launch-1.0 command-line tool to generate an MPEG Transport stream for testing. This worked as intended (I was able to serve the stream from a simple http server and hear it using VLC media player). I then tried to replicate the encoding part of that stream in Python gstreamer code. The Python version connected to the server ok, but no audio could be heard. I'm trying to understand why the command-line implementation worked, but the Python one did not. I am working on Mac OS 10.11 and Python 2.7.
The command line that worked was as follows:
gst-launch-1.0 audiotestsrc freq=1000 ! avenc_aac ! aacparse ! mpegtsmux ! tcpclientsink host=127.0.0.1 port=9999
The Python code that created the gstreamer pipeline is below. It instantiated without producing any errors and it connected successfully to the http server, but no sound could be heard through VLC. I verified that the AppSrc in the Python code was working, by using it with a separate gstreamer pipeline that played the audio directly. This worked fine.
def create_mpeg2_pipeline():
play = Gst.Pipeline()
src = GstApp.AppSrc(format=Gst.Format.TIME, emit_signals=True)
src.connect('need-data', need_data, samples()) # need_data and samples defined elsewhere
play.add(src)
capsFilterOne = Gst.ElementFactory.make('capsfilter', 'capsFilterOne')
capsFilterOne.props.caps = Gst.Caps('audio/x-raw, format=(string)S16LE, rate=(int)44100, channels=(int)2')
play.add(capsFilterOne)
src.link(capsFilterOne)
audioConvert = Gst.ElementFactory.make('audioconvert', 'audioConvert')
play.add(audioConvert)
capsFilterOne.link(audioConvert)
capsFilterTwo = Gst.ElementFactory.make('capsfilter', 'capsFilterTwo')
capsFilterTwo.props.caps = Gst.Caps('audio/x-raw, format=(string)F32LE, rate=(int)44100, channels=(int)2')
play.add(capsFilterTwo)
audioConvert.link(capsFilterTwo)
aacEncoder = Gst.ElementFactory.make('avenc_aac', 'aacEncoder')
play.add(aacEncoder)
capsFilterTwo.link(aacEncoder)
aacParser = Gst.ElementFactory.make('aacparse', 'aacParser')
play.add(aacParser)
aacEncoder.link(aacParser)
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play.add(mpegTransportStreamMuxer)
aacParser.link(mpegTransportStreamMuxer)
tcpClientSink = Gst.ElementFactory.make('tcpclientsink', 'tcpClientSink')
tcpClientSink.set_property('host', '127.0.0.1')
tcpClientSink.set_property('port', 9999)
play.add(tcpClientSink)
mpegTransportStreamMuxer.link(tcpClientSink)
My question is, how does the gstreamer pipeline that I've implemented in Python differ from the command-line pipeline? And more generally, how do you DEBUG this sort of thing? Does gstreamer have any 'verbose' mode?
Thanks.
One question at a time:
1) How does it differ from gst-launch-1.0?
It is hard to tell without seeing your full code but I'll try to guess:
gst-launch-1.0 does proper pad linking. When you have a muxer like you do you can't directly link it as it is created without any sink pads. You need to request one to be created before you can link. Take a look at dynamic pads: https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/documentation/application-development/basics/pads.html
Also, gst-launch-1.0 has error handling, so it checks that every action succeeded and otherwise reports an error. I'd recommend you add a GstBus message handler to get notified of error messages at least. Also you should check the return for the functions you call in GStreamer, that would allow you to catch this linking error in your program.
2) Gstreamer debugging?
Mostly done by setting the GST_DEBUG variable: https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/documentation/tutorials/basic/debugging-tools.html#the-debug-log
Run your application with: GST_DEBUG=6 ./yourapplication and you should see lots of logging.

How to send SMS messages in Matlab by using AT commands? Not using email gateways

Problems:
I am able to use hyperterminal to send SMS via COM9. All good.
But I cannot properly use AT commands in matlab to do the same thing. I even cannot pass the first "AT" step. The error I received is "Unexpected Error: Unexpected Error: An error occurred during writing." It seems coming from fprintf. Help!
Here is the codes:
try
s = serial('COM9','BaudRate',9600);
fopen(s);
tx='AT';
tx1=char(13);
tx2=char(10);
fprintf(s, '%s', sprintf('%s%s%s', tx, tx1, tx2));
out = fscanf(s);
disp(out);
fclose(s);
catch aException
fclose(s);
error(message('MATLAB:serial:fprintf:opfailed', aException.message));
You have done the serial communication part properly. In AT command set, to check the working of the device it's enough if you send 'AT' and a line feed. Also you gave both carriage return and line feed to the device simultaneously. That could create a problem. Also while writing MATLAB code for the first time, try sending the characters individually as you do in Hyperterminal. It will solve your problem.
There will be no problem from MATLAB's perspective when the communication link is created successfully.

Perl/Swig/Python/Postgresql/C++ Script just stops executing, only getting "Premature end of script headers"

This is hard to explain in a few sentences. I have spent the last 5 days trying to figure this out, so now I'm asking here as a last resort. I am trying to run a pool physics library with tournament server, built by the Stanford University Computational Billiards Group, available at http://www.stanford.edu/group/billiards/
It provides a tournament server using apache2, postgresql and perl. I have been able to enable functions like logging in or creating simple matches, but the communication with AI clients does not work. The client is a C++ application I'm running in a terminal, its fetching commands from the server and its printing this error:
XMLRPC error: Unable to transport XML to server and get XML response back. HTTP response code is 500, not 200
And the apache2 error.log is printing this:
[Thu May 17 21:30:17 2012] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] Premature end of script headers: api.pl
I tried running it with CGI::Debug but didnt get any more output. I have been able to identify the line it fails at with some debug outputs (one after every line :) ) and it's in this function, on the line between the print STDERRs:
package Pool::Rules::GameState;
sub addToDb {
my $self=shift;
my $timeleft=shift || $self->timeLeft();
my $timeleft_opp=shift || $self->timeLeftOpp();
#print STDERR "uh uh uh".$self." ".$self->timeLeft()." ".$self->timeLeftOpp()." ".$timeleft." ".$timeleft_opp."\n";
my $playingSolids = ($self->isOpenTable() ? undef : ($self->playingSolids()?1:0));
# print STDERR "addToDb: X".$self->isOpenTable()."X Y".$self->playingSolids()."Y Z".$playingSolids."Z\n";
$Pool::dB::dbh->do('INSERT INTO states (turntype,cur_player_started,playing_solids,timeleft,timeleft_opp,gametype) VALUES (?,?,?,?,?,?)',{},
$self->getTurnType(),$self->curPlayerStarted()?1:0,$playingSolids,$timeleft,$timeleft_opp,$self->gameType()) or STDERR $DBI::errstr;
my $stateid=$Pool::dB::dbh->selectrow_array('SELECT lastval()');
$self->tableState()->addToDb($stateid);
return $stateid;
}
It's only simple getter-methods. And still, it just stops executing. The code of the getter-methods has been generated by swig. The first print-line prints this:
uh uh uhPool::Rules::GameState=HASH(0x99fa99c) 0 0 00:10:00 00:10:00
Which seems to be okay, just curious that the $self->-getters only print 0. Since the library is from Stanford University and actual competitions have been held with it, I find it hard to believe that this is an error in the code. It just seems to be a bit too old to work (I had to make some adjustments on other places to make it work on more recent versions of libraries, f.ex. I added a < cstddef >-include in another file unrelated to this perl-issue). I first tried making it run on current versions, which I failed. Then I tried to install it on the versions the readme.txt sais it's been tested for (Ubuntu 8.10, Perl 5.10 and so on), but at some point my Ubuntu 8.10 installation always died and I had to reinstall (I tried this ~4 times, the gnome-terminal always Segmentation faulted). So now I'm back in Ubuntu 12 trying to make it work. I dont know much about perl, only the little I have been able to pick up over the last few days trying to get this to run.
Does anyone have an idea what could be triggering this kind of behavior? Is anyone aware of any compatibility issues that may be related to this? If you need any additional information just ask and I'll provide it.
Thank you for your help!