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?

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

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 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. 

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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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

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).

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

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

Edited July 26, 20169 yr by elvisimprsntr