Yeah my fault.. forget to hit the reply. It was early.
Twilio charges $1 plus local tax for your own phone number per month and then usage on top which is pennies a use. I personally use it for the important notifications like water detection and pushover for low priority stuff.
@phillypan happy to help you get the Twilio driver setup, I created the original community driver before it because a stock driver. Please let me know what you have tried and I can help.
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Ok I successfully added the driver and created a virtual device but in the log, each time I try a test message I get the "message queued" but never receive a email. Any idea where to look to resolve this issue?
Twillo is so worth it if you have water/smoke or alarm detectors. Doesn't cost very much and it's not a monthly subscription. I usually top it up every 7 months.
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I'm at work at the minute. I'll knock something up wed/thu pm... I'm stuck until then. It works really well though =)
Check the delivery logs within Sendgrid. You should be able to see messages that were sent yet might not be delivered.
But I thought we figured out it is a monthly subscription of $1?
Compliments of: @erktrek
Works for me. Do wish I didn't have to worry about any non-secure aspects of using this as per Eric's own admissions. I'm really really really surprised this hasn't made it onto Hubitat's To Do List.
SMTP is a very helpful feature in a number of mission critical boxes I have hanging on my network. I know it's "old school" notification and not a fancy push application. But it's been pretty reliable.
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Any suggestion on which email server to use with it?
Just using a 3rd party provider of which there are a few that still allow the type of connection necessary.
Agreed, IFTTT is a cloud service. But so is email, and any app that requires your phone to have a data connection. I live in Canada and sometimes I am in an area where the only service I can get is telephone. No internet, no data on the mobile phone just good old telephone. I use IFTTT phone call service as a messaging system with my hub. I am not so worried that their cloud service will go down, but much more worried that I will be in a location where only phone service is available.
It works good, probably a 3-5 second delay between the condition that activates the rule for my hub to send a message to IFTTT and my phone ringing.
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I'm not adept at Hubitat drivers and such. How would I go about setting up IFTTT on my system?
This would be a great help but the website isn't there anymore.
I did, get there. What I mean is the page that the docs refer to at IFTTT are not there.
Everything is still there, just add the the Built-in App called IFTTT Integration and follow the instructions in the document mentioned earlier in this thread. Then go to IFTTT.com and setup an account and link it to your hubitat.
I have done all that but I can't figure out what to do after everything is setup. I indicated earlier in this thread, I am not accomplished at programming. I even tried to do one of the simple apps on IFTTT and couldn't make it work. I went through the steps but the button to turn on a lamp never materialized. So I am going to be in deep water trying to setup Hubitat to send SMS when the sytem is triggered.
