Mobile App's Google Dependance (Android)

[aaiyar]

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Is there any chance that Hubitat's devs might consider making the app a little less dependency on Google in the future?

Not going to happen.

If you need SMS that works with a mail server that uses TLS, then look into @erktrek's integration, linked to below:

Email Notifications Driver using Node/sendmail on a PI

Not sure if people are interested but just created a very crude driver & Node App that allows you to send emails via a notification driver and a server running Node & sendmail. The driver just sends a simple REST post call to the Node http://[your ip]:3000/email which parses the text and uses sendmail to send out. I am using this in place of SMS alerts for now - US Cell providers have an email to txt message email address for each phone #. Again this is very crude and unsecure. Will be lookin…

Or use the built-in integration for Twilio, or @ritchierich's integration for Plivo, linked to below:

[Deprecated] Plivo SMS and Voice Notification Driver

Update 11-03-2023: Plivo no longer supports individual developers. Accounts must be created with "work" email domains and they do not support email addresses from personal domains. HE natively includes a Twilio driver that allows you to send SMS messages. Plivo is a competitor to Twilio and is a little cheaper so this might be a good alternative for the community. Please view the Plivo Pricing page for specific details. For example at the time of this post, the monthly fee for a dedicated ph…