Anyone got HouseBot to send a SMS Text Message??

talisman · Post by **talisman** » Wed Mar 15, 2006 4:41 am

I have an alarm system that can ring a few phone numbers if the alarm is activated. Which is great if you have a landline..... which i dont!!! Just a mobile phone user im afraid!!

Does anyone know or has figured a way to get HouseBot to send an SMS TEXT message to you if a state is activated?

So if my alarm activates it changes a state in HB and then a task/script whatever activates a SMS message ??

starfire · Post by **starfire** » Wed Mar 15, 2006 7:39 am

If you can send emails there are email <> SMS gateways available, thats how I get my HB to alert me

talisman · Post by **talisman** » Wed Mar 15, 2006 10:09 am

Hi Starfire. would you mind giving me a guide as to how to set that up as that would solve my landline problem, so that i can get text alerts to the alarm going off.

Thanks for the reply appreciate it so quick. :lol:

Rob

starfire · Post by **starfire** » Wed Mar 15, 2006 1:10 pm

Don't know how detailed you want, here are the basics:-

Add an Email Sender device into bousebot and configure it

Setup a task that changes the Send Message property to Yes to send the email, you can change the Message Subject as you see fit

I use http://www.vgsmail.com to as my email <> SMS gateway, you supply the phone number of the mobile in the email recipient field and vgsmail then sends an SMS containing the email body to the mobile.

talisman · Post by **talisman** » Wed Mar 15, 2006 7:17 pm

Thanks matey ill give that a try and let you know how i get on.

starfire · Post by **starfire** » Thu Mar 16, 2006 2:03 am

No problems. BTW, I'm not sure if vgsmail will take new users as they were going to be closing down but there are probably lots of other gateways you could use.

talisman · Post by **talisman** » Thu Mar 16, 2006 4:19 am

Ok ill try. Created an account with them so just need to play with it.

spike5884 · Post by **spike5884** » Sun Mar 19, 2006 8:22 pm

Not sure about over seas, but here in the US, the major wireless carriers support email to cellphone. For example, I can send an email to [email protected] and eventually I will get the message on my cell phone. Granted it has to be a short email. They also provide a website to do it too.

You may may want to check and see if your wireless carrier provides the same type of feature.

talisman · Post by **talisman** » Mon Mar 20, 2006 8:22 am

They should do next year, thanks. :lol: