text message via email from ISY - add to favorites - iOS

[Jamison_IO]

I have an alert set up to send me a text message if my garage door is open after 10pm. It is sent to XXXXXXXXXX@vtxt.com (i think that's right - verizon) and works great. Except, I want to tell my phone to let these go through if my do not disturb is on. To do that, normally all i have to do is add the number (or contact) to my 'favorites' and tell DND to allow calls and texts from Favorites through even when DND is on.

 

So i created a contact from the email address (alerts@universal-devices.com), but since there is no phone number, it wants to connect it to facetime. i tried that, but it still blocks the texts when DND is on.

 

Ideas?

[elvisimprsntr]

I specifically send a garage door left open text message 1 hour before DND window. Problem solved.

[BamBamF16]

I had issues using the udi server as each text would show as from a different number in iMessage. I switched to using Gmail to serve and I get a consistent send number/account. And it's me.

 

Although now that I think about it that won't solve your phone number issue.

[Jamison_IO]

I had issues using the udi server as each text would show as from a different number in iMessage. I switched to using Gmail to serve and I get a consistent send number/account. And it's me.

 

Although now that I think about it that won't solve your phone number issue.

 

I could send an email to myself with a certain subject and that could send me a text from gmail.  that's a lot of triggers, etc. 

I specifically send a garage door left open text message 1 hour before DND window. Problem solved.

 

 

That is embarrassingly simple...i think i just might do that. 

[G W]

One way to solve the problem is to get a free account at zoho.com and use that for your isy email.

 

I've been doing this for longer than I can remember.

 

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[BamBamF16]

I could send an email to myself with a certain subject and that could send me a text from gmail. that's a lot of triggers, etc.

 

 

I use Gmail servers to send the text message to my phone via an email to text. Some number of steps just replace the UDI email server with Gmail.

 

Jeff

[cowjockey]

I started using mms.att.net instead of txt.att.net - all of the MMS messages come through from one "number" - apparently, the MMS protocol processes the message headers and the TXT protocol does not. The txt.att.net messages all begin with "FRM: ISY Alerts\nSUBJ:whatever\n"MSG:the message", whereas the same message using MMS will have the SUBJ has the first line, in bold, and the MSG part follows on the next line(s).

[AnthemAVM]

Any thoughts on how to do this with Verizon text message?

[elvisimprsntr]

Any thoughts on how to do this with Verizon text message?

http://www.netrafic.com/blog/email-to-cell/

 

Verizon

10-digit phone number@vtext.com

10-digit phone number@vzwpix.com (MMS)

Example: 1234567890@vtext.com