Event reporting ...

Definition

Mobile Equipment Event Reporting functionality means what cell phone is able to send the unsolicited result codes for key presses, display changes, and indicator state changes.

How to check

Run terminal emulator (Minicom or cu) and estabhlish connection with the phone.

For example(Bluetooth):

cu -l /dev/rfcomm0 -s 19200

or (IR):

cu -l /dev/ircomm0 -s 19200

or (cable):

cu -l /dev/ttyACM0 -s 19200

It should answers

Connected

Enter AT or ATZ and get answer "OK"

AT
OK

Enter AT+CMER=? and get something like:

AT+CMER=?
+CMER: (0,3),(0,1,2),(0),(0,1,2),(0)
OK

or just

AT+CMER=?
ERROR

If You got "ERROR" on "AT+CMER=..." seems Your cell phone will not work with anyRemote in AT-mode. Try to use Server-mode.

Also, it seems phone does not support event reporting for key presses if answer looks like (second item is "(0)"):

+CMER: (0,3),(0),(0),(0,1,2),(0)

Now it is the time to determine exact format of "AT+CMER=x,x,x,x,x" command

In general:

SE phones uses       AT+CMER=3,2,0,0,0
Motorola phones uses AT+CMER=3,1,0,0,0
Siemens phones uses  AT+CMER=3,2,0,0,0
Sagem phones uses    AT+CMER=2,1,0,0,0

So, enter, say:

AT+CMER=3,1,0,0,0 and get "OK",then press button "1" on the phone keyboard.

You should in terminal emulator see something like:

+CKEV: "1",1
+CKEV: "1",0

+CKEV: 1,1
+CKEV: 1,0

Try to find variant of "CMER=..." command which will work fo You.

Seems command which disables event reporting feature is similar for all phones (at least for Motorola, Siemens, Sagem and SE), it is

CMER=3,0,0,0,0

The value You have found should be specified in configuration file. anyRemote will try to determine model of the phone upon connecting, and can use predefined "CMER=..." commands for Motorola, Sagem, Siemens and SE phones.

At the end, it is a good idea to create "dictionary" of key codes.

One-by-one press all keys on the phone keyboard and inspect corresponding +CKEV codes in terminal emulator window. That codes will be used in configuration file. There are exists such files for SE, Motorola, Siemens, Benq-Siemens and Sagem phones. That files could be found in keymaps/ directory.