Couple of Communication Questions

[lewis.heidrick]

The Hubitat App does notifications just load it on your phone

You can install most of the popular apps using the community app Hubitat Package Manager.

This Community app should work for sending mail or sms's

[RELEASE] SendGrid Email notification plugin

I threw this together based of @ogiewon's Pushover driver for SendGrid. It's pretty basic but it gets the job done if you only need to send <100 messages/day and don't want to run your own SMTP server and don't have access to an app to do push notifications. You should also be able to email your SMS address with it, but I haven't tested that. Requirements This requires a SendGrid account; their free plan offers 100 emails/day You will also have to verify an email address to “send as”; if you …

Here's another one:

[BETA RELEASE] HEmail - Simple Email Notification Device Driver, no RPi needed

Here is a very simple email notification driver that uses telnet to send email notifications to a (?local?) smtp server of your choice. Note: It CANNOT handle SSL/TLS so is not suitable for GMail or other major mail providers etc. Also it is not very secure so plan accordingly. https://github.com/adsavia/HEmail This is a beta release so expect some bugs, confusion the usual...

This community app should handle the TTS

[Deprecated] Amazon Alexa Text to Speech (TTS) v0.6.2 - Direct Integration (USA, Canada, UK, Italy, Australia, & Brazil)

FYI - I am moving the status of this integration to DEPRECATED, as I have not used nor touched this code for a few years. For those looking for Alexa TTS, please take a look at Echo Speaks. Direct Text to Speech integration from your Hubitat Hub to Amazon's cloud servers. v0.1.0 - Initial Release v0.2.0 - Fixed a bug causing the app to hang when the cookie is invalid. Added support for more 'Alexa Devices' like tablets, thermostats, etc... Thanks @stephack! v0.3.0 - Added multi-country su…