Using old phone for notifications

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Hello!
New to the forum.
Lots of useful info here, but...

Looking for a solution for location without internet connection.
Planning to use an old android phone (no data plan) as a notification device.
All I need is: when event is triggered - the phone sends SMS/text message.

Could someone point me in the right direction as to what apps/drivers are needed to accomplish this?

Thanks!
Victor

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Tasker (android) can send SMS's and you can (I believe - I haven't yet tried it) trigger tasker to do things from HE.

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With a old phone to send SMS/Text messages you will need an active SIM card on cellular services. There are other ways to send SMS messages with Hubitat. Hubitat has Twilio integration with a virtual device that will send the SMS message out to any phone number that you register with their services.

I have been doing some experimenting with their services and it works well but there is a subscription cost to do this and this approach would be more reliable as long as your internet is connected:

Twilio - Hubitat Documentation

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connect it to wifi, then use pushover for notifications..

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thank you for the reply
you are right about an active SIM, however I don't think Twillio will work without internet connection

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Yes sorry missed that in your original message. Yep you need to have internet to use the service from the Hubitat.

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Thank you for the reply
I think that Tasker is the way to go
Need advice on:

  1. hub-phone connection (WiFi + hubitat app on the phone?)
  2. Hubitat app/driver for Tasker

I'm new to Hubitat and don't know much...
Was searching and reading us much as I could before asking for help here

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Unfortunately I have not done this particular setup before so perhaps someone else can chime in?

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This could be a viable cellular backup solution for situations when internet connection goes down

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tasker is all on the android phone and has a decent learning curve. instead of sending a text, why not set up the mobile phone you want to receive the notifications with the hub and send a notification when the alert triggers?

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This is a different approach using an Arduino, lots of challenges but in the end it should be able to send notifications as well as receive commands via SMS.


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What he said.
SMS?!?​ This is the 21st Century, right? :rofl:

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This. :smiley: