Changes to ST SMS service (September 25, 2019)

[Robin]

Bring it on haha… guess they got the message I left them lol

[Robin]

Digging a bit deeper here… using Twilio I can reply to messages and trigger pistons… nice!!

[jkp]

Changes to SMS Service

[tmleafs]

I did this with whatsapp over a year ago

[RELEASE] WhatsApp integration to SmartThings (2-way messaging)

[tmleafs]

I would love pushover & twilio to be built into WebCore so it saves on code and variables

Heres another way of doing PushOver integration https://community.smartthings.com/t/pushover-notifications-device-type/34562

[Robin]

[RELEASE] Using Twilio to Send SMS

With the demise of SMS messaging for non US phone numbers, many of us have been cut off. There are some existing options out there for pushover and WhatsApp, but I prefer good old fashioned SMS. Here is what you need to do to use Twilio SMS with webCoRE, I’m sure someone will figure out how to make the web calls to Twilio directly, but for now I’m passing the requests through Google Sheets / Script API. Seems a bit long winded but that’s because I’ve carefully spelt out every single littl…

[jkp]

Bring it on haha… guess they got the message I left them lol

You appear to be the trending topic on the ST forum at the moment.

[Robin]

haha… they must miss me lol… I wont be coming back after the 30th, fuck them!!

[jkp]

Changes to SMS Service

[jkp]

Changes to SMS Service

[T-And]

Has anyone tried the “send email” option? In the US, each carrier offers email to SMS:
AT&T: [email protected]
T-Mobile: [email protected]
Sprint: [email protected]
Verizon: [email protected] or [email protected]
Virgin Mobile: [email protected]
Rogers Mobile: [email protected]

There might be a similar service through your provider.

[WCmore]

Good point, @T-And… The ones I have tested do work…

Just keep in mind that there is a strict daily limit on emails sent out by pistons.
(which also counts emails sent from this forum)

Once your daily limit has been reached, you will not receive any more emails until the next day…

[ale2999]

What is the email limit?

[WCmore]

Ummmm… I remember the number being very low… Was it 50 a day?
(this count includes piston emails as well as forum emails)

[jkp]

For webCoRE itself, we have changed the email limits to 50 per day instead of the 30 per hour it was before.

Notice - Forum and webCoRE emails are down

NOTICE Please note that our email provider (mailgun) is currently down due to excessive use which has pushed us over the rate limits (max 10k emails per day). We have killed all the backed up emails, so hopefully emails will fire up again soon. The biggest culprit appears to be the forum… with over 1.3 million emails sent so far! In preparation for when emails start working again, and to prevent a re-occurrence, we have been forced to disable the daily digest emails and have limited each use…

[ale2999]

Thank you!

[WCmore]

Thanks @jkp… I was looking for that link!

[T-And]

I use SMS to track specific activity such as lights turning on randomly when I’m not home, or when the furnace turns on/off. Is there an option to build an activity log another way?

[WCmore]

In the past, I have used “Fuel Streams” to keep a tally for this… but due to unreliability, I now use the command “Log to console”. (which works brilliantly)

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If you want multiple pistons to display activity in one spot, then PUSH notifications (with “store”) works well.

[AvronW]

Here’s a workaround that costs virtually nothing.
I’ve used IFTTT and my normal phone plan’s unlimited SMS/Text feature to get around this using pistons and the IFTTT Android service (I presume the IOS app can also do this). All SMS messages are sent seamlessly from my phone, so it does require you to have your phone on to work (in reality I almost never turn it off) and also probably doesn’t make sense using this approach to send messages to your own number. Here’s how I’ve got it working flawlessly now:

In short, this is how it works. Any piston wanting to send a text does so by executing another SMS Sender piston and passing it two parameters (message and number). That SMS Sender piston validate the parameters, ensuring there is actually a message and a phone number, then using IFTTT Webhooks, passes calls a Web Request to the IFTTT Webhooks URL, passing it those same two parameters. IFTTT then hands that over to the Android phone service that send the SMS message (as me).
Any caller piston > SMS Sender piston > IFTTT Webhooks/Android SMS > SMS

Bear in mind you will need to have your integration for IFTTT configured in the webcore dashboard.

To do this:

1. Configure IFTTT (Webhooks and IFTTT App)
First configure an IFTTT Webhooks to Android phone (or IOS) recipe to expect a event word like “sms” and two parameters expected for the “Send an SMS” service (e.g. phone number and message)

2. Build an SMS Sender piston
Now, build a piston called something like SMS Sender that expects two arguments when being executed, $args.message and $args.number. Do any validation you want of these parameters and then when ready to send it, use the “Send IFTTT Maker event” action. [note: as these messages are sent as messages originating from you, you may want to tack a note onto the message parameter to identify it as a piston generated message (e.g. +" sent by piston $name")]

For the “Send IFTTT Maker event”, just provide the event name “sms” and those two parameters.

3. Now let other pistons use the SMS Sender piston
Whenever any other piston wants to send an SMS, just make sure you have those two variable defined in that piston (message and number) and then Execute a Piston called SMS Sender with those parameters and the message will be sent. (assuming you at least have your IFTTT phone switched on).

Good luck.