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Is there any instant notification feature to send SMS messages to my phone? Sort of like the email notification setup that we have in the Portal but for SMS..

Ive seen some other random posts on other sites with iPhone/SMS alerts..

you can set it up through the ra client, under notifications.

works for me when the ph is either to high or low, also temps.

Ok, sweet. Only thing is that is required to be running on a machine somewhere. Would be nice to have the alerts sent from the controller itself. Maybe have RA flag on a problem and then have the controller send a request to an SMS Gateway API for sending out alerts. Or i guess it could go the google route as well like the RA Client does..

I use my own wireless carrier gateway.
xxxxxx@messaging.sprint.com sends me an sms.
All carriers have their gateway you could use.
Wouldn't that work for you?

rimai wrote:I use my own wireless carrier gateway.
xxxxxx@messaging.sprint.com sends me an sms.
All carriers have their gateway you could use.
Wouldn't that work for you?

Yes i have T-Mobile and they have: number@tmomail.net and i tested it through outlook and its works great.
How do you initiate that post to email from arduino? I saw some WiFly HTTP POST articles that i was reading.

You can use the Portal

rimai wrote:You can use the Portal

All i need is Portal(xxxx@tmomail.net)?

You can go to the portal and set triggers to send alerts to your email xxxx@tmomail.net

rimai wrote:You can go to the portal and set triggers to send alerts to your email xxxx@tmomail.net

Ohh, LOL i see. That would work. But arent those emails sent from the Portal kind of throttled? Like so many per hour and every 5 minutes?

Try here for another option:
http://forum.reefangel.com/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=1760

Ok, cool. I ran across that post last night and was going to try that out. Was just wondering if there were any other built in options currently. I was looking at twilio API services and stuff, which wasnt sure of there trial limitations. But i can go straight through my carrier so thats even better.

What about something like this:
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/GSM-SMS-TC35 ... 3f193b1cd5
and connect it to the usb expansion with this:
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/USB-2-0-RS23 ... 460515f66b
would it work?

It would if you use this apapter instead:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/SP3232-RS232-De ... 3a6976390e

You would loose wifi though