Jamison_IO Posted June 22, 2016 Posted June 22, 2016 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 Posted June 22, 2016 Posted June 22, 2016 I specifically send a garage door left open text message 1 hour before DND window. Problem solved.
BamBamF16 Posted June 22, 2016 Posted June 22, 2016 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 Posted June 23, 2016 Author Posted June 23, 2016 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 Posted June 23, 2016 Posted June 23, 2016 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. Sent from my SM-G930T using Tapatalk
BamBamF16 Posted June 23, 2016 Posted June 23, 2016 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 Posted July 13, 2016 Posted July 13, 2016 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 Posted July 25, 2016 Posted July 25, 2016 Any thoughts on how to do this with Verizon text message?
elvisimprsntr Posted July 25, 2016 Posted July 25, 2016 (edited) 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, 2016 by elvisimprsntr
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