Email2sms gateways are being exploited to send spam. It’s not surprising that AT&T is shutting theirs down.
Wouldn’t surprise me if other carriers follow suit.
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Wouldn't be surprised at all. Verizon's gateway has been horribly inconsistent over the years. Shutting it down would actually be beneficial to the users - at least they know it doesn't work at all - and spam would decrease.
Has anyone tried Use Phone Link to Sync Your Android or iPhone to Your Windows Computer | Microsoft ? Wondering if there might be a way to reverse engineer the text sending protocol to send messages.
Just talking out loud idea. Since Pushover is it's own app, I'm thinking you can put it prominently next to your main texting/messaging app. And messages to Pushover would be only from Hubitat, so harder to miss? If using iOS, there is a setting to make an app's notifications remain at the top of the screen until dismissed instead of auto disappearing after a few seconds. There's probably an Android version of that feature. In this way, a Pushover notification can never be missed.
None of this is a text message, but ideas on how to make the situation work for free. Well, there is that one time $5 for Pushover after the one month free trial.
With the upcoming Pushover community driver feature of auto-destruct, you can set certain messages a time to live after which they disappear. Use case: have garage door notifications disappear after say 60 minutes to keep the Pushover app less cluttered.
T-mobile email to SMS has been less than reliable for quite some time.
I now use the Hubitat app to deliver time-sensitive notifications. It has been 100% reliable for me for the several months I have been using it and it is free.
I use email for non-time-sensitive stuff. I have an always-on Raspberry pi running Postfix. It accepts connections from the LAN and forwards things via gmail.
Marc
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If you are Android & willing to pay$4, Tasker can designate notifications persistent and they can only be deleted if you specifically do so. They don't clear when you do blanket clearing of notifications. I use that for reminders to feed dog and take medication.
I switched to a discord integration. It's free and the messages are permanent in whichever Discord channel you send them to. It's free to host your own Discord server, so I have multiple channels set up for the various integrations in my house.
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Is this a notification driver that is publicly available?
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Start a new thread not relavant here deleting.
