Emulator Connection

Emulator connection is a special type of connection that emulates an SME which receives and sends messages.

An incoming message generated by the emulator has a random sender phone number, while the message text and the recipient phone number depend on the type of the emulator.

Emulator Connection Dialog

See Connection Dialog for description of the Connection, Account and Options tabs.

Emulator tab

• Type lets you select the type of the incoming messages. The type defines the contents of the messages, the message text prefix, and the default recipient address. Note that the recipient address will be overridden if the address of the account is specified in the Account tab. If the asterisk sign ( * ) is specified in the account address field, then the recipient address will be randomly generated.
  
  Available emulator types:
   

• Quiz (A-D) - generates incoming messages of typical quiz answers - one chosen letter from predefined set of four (A, B, C, or D).

• Favorite pet - generates incoming messages containing pets' names, emulating voting for the favorite pet (e.g. Rabbit, Mouse, Iguana, Kitty, Snake, Tomcat, Cat, Turtle, Dog, Puppy, Parrot, etc).

• Music chart - generates incoming messages containing the names of musicians/bands (e.g. Kylie Minogue, Sonique, Beyonce Knowles, Roni Size, Eminem, No Doubt, Kosheen, Rolling Stones, Massive Attack, etc).

• Football match - generates incoming messages containing predicted result of a single football match (e.g. 3:2, 1:0, 4:1, 1:2, etc).

• TV Chat - generates incoming messages of various contents, thus emulating a typical TV chat. Useful for configuring and testing the TV Chat service.

• Race (3/8) - generates incoming messages containing three randomly chosen numbers from the set of eight (e.g. 3,2,7 or 5,8,1 or 4,7,3 etc.), emulating predicted outcome of a race (first, second, and third place).

• SMS Center - generates incoming messages from all emulator types described above. Useful for testing simultaneous use of several different services.

• Client - emulates a connection to client application by returning Thank you for your message. reply for each message sent to the client (e.g. when forwarding TV Chat messages received from the network operator to remote client application for broadcasting).

• Custom - generates incoming messages out of user's defined set, which can be entered in the Text field.
   

• Include prefix specifies whether to include the prefix in the message text.
• Speed lets you specify the speed of the emulator.
• Text lets you specify custom set of messages, where each line of text defines a single message.