someguy Posted January 7, 2021 Posted January 7, 2021 I have my ISY configured to send notifications from my Gmail account. when I test sending it to my regular email address (a gmail account) it takes a second or two. When I use the same settings to send a test TEXT message to my phone, using (my 10 digit telephone number)@txt.att.net, it works but it takes 5-10 minutes for me to get the message. I found this article online that suggests it is AT&T's fault: AT&T Forum discussion has anyone found a workaround or does anyone have any suggestions?
kissfan Posted January 7, 2021 Posted January 7, 2021 I have the same issue. Sometimes they come through immediately, sometimes it can take two or three hours. I believe it’s an issue with AT&T’s interface from mail to texting.Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk
MrBill Posted January 7, 2021 Posted January 7, 2021 Use 10digitnum@mms.att.net instead. It’s not immune from delays either, but is usually better. As an added it benefit your messages arrive from your email address as opposed to the weird numbers .txt uses, also the Max message length is 1024 instead of breaking messages up. 1
Whitehambone Posted January 7, 2021 Posted January 7, 2021 @someguy Do you have a Polisy, run Polyglot or MobiLinc? There are some alternative alert methods.
someguy Posted January 14, 2021 Author Posted January 14, 2021 On 1/6/2021 at 9:35 PM, MrBill said: Use 10digitnum@mms.att.net instead. It’s not immune from delays either, but is usually better. As an added it benefit your messages arrive from your email address as opposed to the weird numbers .txt uses, also the Max message length is 1024 instead of breaking messages up. I tried this mms.att.net method and it seems to work much quicker. Thank you, MrBill! Whitehambone: I also do have Polisy. what options are there there for notifications?
MrBill Posted January 14, 2021 Posted January 14, 2021 54 minutes ago, someguy said: I tried this mms.att.net method and it seems to work much quicker. Thank you, MrBill! Whitehambone: I also do have Polisy. what options are there there for notifications? mms.att.net does have it's bad moments, recently it's been good but every now and then there will be weird 4-12 hour delays. As a result I usually send important messages via more than one service. The other method above using policy is to use the service Pushover. there are two (that I know of) nodeservers for that service, on is "Push" the other is "Notification". You can also use Network Resources to send messages via Pushover. Pushover is basically instantaneous most of the time, when I go out to get the mail my watch taps my wrist with the mailbox notification before the mailbox is even fully open. It's not perfect either tho, I've had very few messages that went missing, normally when I think to look at the ISY error log it's an https timeout on the pushover API (the wiki suggests 2000ms for timeout, IIRC mine are set at 4000ms for the network resource originated messages (which are still most of mine because they pre-date Polisy and I've never moved them). What is Pushover? Basically a service that lets you send push notifications to your phone via an API. The only fee they charge for small individual users is the one-time download of the app. (there is a free trial.)
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