Simple Email Notifications

stevegon3 · October 10, 2020, 8:34pm

I have read numerous posts where people have setup MailGun, Cobra or SendGrid with Hubitat. I have tried all three with no luck. MailGun simply does not have documentation that even explains how to properly format a CURL request, so I am not even sure how I would integrate it. Cobra refused to give me an account. SendGrid can't send via GMail, Outlook.com nor Zoho.

I would gladly pay for an integration that took a technical person less than 40 hours to setup (I am an expert level Python, Spark and Javascript engineer; I can send emails in all those languages...why not from a hub?).

I think it is ridiculous for any product like Hubitat or SmartThings to not include a simple SMTP send. ALL my security CAMERAS and NVRs do this out of the box. There are literally thousands of email clients out there. Why can't these hubs do a simple SMTP integration and send? Why does one have to setup multiple relays, a home email server or complex integrations? Email actually sucks as a regular form of communication, however for the use case of alarm notifications it is actually the perfect medium.

Bloodtick_Jones · October 10, 2020, 10:10pm

webCoRE has native email support and works well on Hubitat. SMS is deprecated from the SmartThings solution.

stevegon3 · October 10, 2020, 11:35pm

Thanks. How do you set it up for use with HE? I installed from here)? but the last step is to go to the Dashboard which requires requires SmartThings? I do not have STs.

danabw · October 11, 2020, 1:18am

Launch webcore from your apps in HE, then click on the Dashboard option.

kahn-hubitat · October 11, 2020, 6:22am

my send mail works fine also to any servers...

github.com

lgkahn/hubitat/blob/master/sendmail V2

/**
*   simple sendmail no authentication .. lg kahn kahn@lgk.com
*  You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
*  along with this program.  If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
* 
* v 2.1 added desciprtive text and cleaned up debugging
*/


attribute "lastCommand", "string"

preferences {
	input("EmailServer", "text", title: "Email Server:", description: "Enter location of email server", required: true)
	input("EmailPort", "integer", title: "Port #:", description: "Enter port number, default 25", defaultValue: 25)
	input("From", "text", title: "From:", description: "", required: true)
	input("To", "text", title: "To:", description: "", required: true)
	input("Subject", "text", title: "Subject:", description: "")
        input("debug", "bool", title: "Enable logging?", required: true, defaultValue: false)
        input("Authenticate", "bool", title: "Use Authentication on the server?", required: false, defaultValue: false)
        input("Username", "text", title: "Username for Authentication - (base64 encoded)?", required: false, defaultValue: "")

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stevegon3 · October 11, 2020, 6:30am

Thanks, but I can't use it without authentication. That's really not practical without ones own email server...which I am certain will stop working the second someone breaks into my house and I NEED to see the email notification.

kahn-hubitat · October 11, 2020, 6:33am

it now also supports authentication.. username password but non encrypted.

stevegon3 · October 11, 2020, 6:35am

And TLS.

stevegon3 · October 11, 2020, 6:36am

I have Webcore up and running and it does seem to be easy now that I have the basic mechanics down.

Bloodtick_Jones · October 11, 2020, 1:12pm

You might of found it already, but there is an active forum around webCoRE. Most topics are compatible with Hubitat and SmartThings. Largest difference is Hubitat runs everything local and is much faster. To note the UI configuration is cloud based, but once you save the piston it loads and executes on the the HE hub.

stevegon3 · October 11, 2020, 6:15pm

Thanks. I was literally just wondering this! I did discover the forum and have already searched it. I think Webcore might work for me, however, I had a piston that was supposed to run this morning and the log says it did, but no email...so I need to troubleshoot and figure it out. Thank you for the recommendation.

jtmpush18 · October 12, 2020, 3:10am

There are a number of other approaches:

The one that I personally use: DoNS (assuming that you have a RPI or the like, at your convenience):
Few outstanding feature questions
You may also wish to explore the email application from Cobra, as part of cobra's apps.

stevegon3 · October 12, 2020, 3:41am

Thanks. DoNS seems to be a better solution than Sendmail or Sendgrid, but more complex than Webcore. I have Webcore up and running and the email integration took all of 1 minute to setup. Cobra declined my application...like it was a job interview or something...really weird.

aaiyar · October 12, 2020, 3:42am

??

DoNS requires sendmail to be installed .....

stevegon3 · October 12, 2020, 3:46am

So why would you do DoNS and Sendmail when you can use Sendmail solo? Although "can" is a subjective term. I tried it and couldn't get it to work.

aaiyar · October 12, 2020, 4:00am

DoNS provides Hubitat with an interface to sendmail via @erktrek’s Hubitat driver.

Edit - here is @erktrek’s introduction to DoNS:

I will add that works really well - I’ve used it early 2019.

stevegon3 · October 12, 2020, 4:06am

Kahn's interface seems to provide an interface to Sendmail without a server...but anyhow, I am happy with Webcore and am going to see if I can make it work. Thanks for the info.

aaiyar · October 12, 2020, 4:09am

Maybe so - to be clear, my post was to clarify the comment that “DoNS seems to be a better solution than Sendmail”.

marcaronson408 · January 9, 2021, 6:29pm

@kahn-hubitat, when I try to add your app I get the following error:

No signature of method: Script1.attribute() is applicable for argument types: (java.lang.String, java.lang.String) values: [lastCommand, string] on line 33

Line 33 contains the following:

attribute "lastCommand", "string"

Any help you can provide would be greatly appreciated, thanks!

Marc

kahn-hubitat · January 9, 2021, 7:12pm

Its not an app its a device handler.