MustangChris04 Posted March 29, 2015 Posted March 29, 2015 I have a few notifications setup to send an email to my cell phone as an SMS using Verizon's email to SMS method 9999999999@vtext.com. These notifications are for events such as when my mailbox is opened, doorbell rung, alarm disarmed,etc. Sometimes these notification are received to my phone sometimes 20-30 seconds after they have actually happened, and at other times I get them within a few seconds of the event. Using my mail client, such as Outlook or gmail, when I sent a test email to the same address (9999999999@vtext.com) I receive the message my phone within 3-5 seconds. I am using the default SMTP settings in the ISY. Has anybody experienced random/inconsistent delays in notifications? Thanks!
Mike Ippolito Posted March 29, 2015 Posted March 29, 2015 Try to test by right clicking on the program and select "Run Then" to see if it shows up with/without delay. If you really need something to show up quickly, I'd recommend you look into push notifications.
Techman Posted March 29, 2015 Posted March 29, 2015 I have a few notifications setup to send an email to my cell phone as an SMS using Verizon's email to SMS method 9999999999@vtext.com. These notifications are for events such as when my mailbox is opened, doorbell rung, alarm disarmed,etc. Sometimes these notification are received to my phone sometimes 20-30 seconds after they have actually happened, and at other times I get them within a few seconds of the event. Using my mail client, such as Outlook or gmail, when I sent a test email to the same address (9999999999@vtext.com) I receive the message my phone within 3-5 seconds. I am using the default SMTP settings in the ISY. Has anybody experienced random/inconsistent delays in notifications? Thanks! My notifications are sent to my cell via email and on occasion show up 20 to 30 minutes late, a copy is also sent to my desktop computer which always arrives on time. I'm using push email on my cell. I've tried using different ISP's to send the mail yet I get the same results. I've been unable to track down the reason for the delay, except for the possibility of a less than stellar push service.
Xathros Posted March 30, 2015 Posted March 30, 2015 (edited) I too see delays when sending notifications via SMS/MMS to my AT&T cell. I have tested sending to both my MMS and Email simultaneously and find that the email arrives in the usual 5-15 seconds and the MMS can at times be just as quick but can often be delayed for many minutes. I have moved all critical notifications to Prowl and have been much happier with the performance there. -Xathros Edited March 30, 2015 by Xathros
smokegrub Posted March 30, 2015 Posted March 30, 2015 My experience with notifications routed by one ISP (Suddenlink ) to another ISP (Cox) are invariably slow, ranging from 5-30 minutes! Notifications originating within Cox and delivered to my Cox account range from seconds to a few minutes. Motion activated photos always take several minutes.
G W Posted March 30, 2015 Posted March 30, 2015 I use my own SMTP server to deliver email and SMS. I see a very short delay and most are delivered within seconds. Sent from my SM-N900P using Tapatalk
MustangChris04 Posted March 31, 2015 Author Posted March 31, 2015 Thanks everyone. I'll try using my personal smtp server and see if that reduces the delay.
MustangChris04 Posted April 6, 2015 Author Posted April 6, 2015 I started using Pushover for push notifications using the email gateway and it has worked quite well but there is still sometimes a delay from the ISY. Unfortunately I couldn't find anything in the API to include images. Does anybody know of a push notification application that supports including images?
MWareman Posted April 6, 2015 Posted April 6, 2015 Pushover can send a url. That can be useful for 'sending' an image. Pushbullet can send files that will download - not what I wanted. Notifymyandroid let's you send html - so that may help as well.
MustangChris04 Posted April 6, 2015 Author Posted April 6, 2015 Pushover can send a url. That can be useful for 'sending' an image. Pushbullet can send files that will download - not what I wanted. Notifymyandroid let's you send html - so that may help as well. To send files that can be downloaded with Pushover, is that just a URL to my server where the image is located, or can it actually be embedded in the message? Their FAQ only shows the support of a few HTML tags for text formatting. I like being able to see the image without clicking on the hyperlink, which is why MMS has been great (except for the delay, or if I'm out of the country I don't get it) I also want to remove as much overhead as possible by not having to save the images. Currently, as soon as I send the MMS, the picture is delved from my server.
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