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I need a free service that allows me to send one SMS message a day or once a week
Does any one know such a service that's reliable?

I think using an old Nokia with a prepay simcard is the best choice for this. For other messages i`m using pushover

raymonvdm wrote:I think using an old Nokia with a prepay simcard is the best choice for this. For other messages i`m using pushover

I like the idea of using an old nokia however at the moment i have no idea how i can push a sms from HomeSeer to the nokia so it will be send. Do you have any idea about this?

At the moment i have setup my system to make a regular phone call to my wifes mobile and a voice is telling her what's wrong. However you must pick up the phone in time. There is no redundency

AshaiRey wrote:

raymonvdm wrote:I think using an old Nokia with a prepay simcard is the best choice for this. For other messages i`m using pushover

I like the idea of using an old nokia however at the moment i have no idea how i can push a sms from HomeSeer to the nokia so it will be send. Do you have any idea about this?

At the moment i have setup my system to make a regular phone call to my wifes mobile and a voice is telling her what's wrong. However you must pick up the phone in time. There is no redundency

There are plugins to do this

http://store.homeseer.com/store/Stipus- ... -P775.aspx

is it an option to use NMA (Notify My Android)

strResult = hs.URLAction("https://www.notifymyandroid.com/publica ... fy?apikey=" & gstrNMAkey _
& "&application=Homeseer" & "&event=Security message" & "&description=" & strmess & "&priority=0", "GET", "", "")

@raymonvdm
I thought thsim plugin wasn't available anymore. Thanks for the tip. I will look into it to see what is possible.

@b_weijenberg
NMA is a possibility to look into.
However i had a look at their website but i couldn't figure out what the transport media is what is used to push the message. If this is via Internet/wifi then it's a no go since wifi is only on at home.

the NMA message is pushed over the Internet (https://www.notifymyandroid.com/...)

You could also use pushover. There is a nice plugin for that as well. In comparrison to NMA it has the option to have messages acknowledged. And you can add url's in it while showing a link. So more options than NMA. You can find the plugin for HS2 here: http://board.homeseer.com/showthread.php?p=1117028 If you use HS3: http://forums.homeseer.com/showthread.php?t=163974

Thanks for all the suggestions.
The next couple of days i will be busy testing and experimenting.

using betamax web ui maybe ?
It's not free, but it is dirt cheap

I`m using different ways to send a message from HomeSeer to my Phone but i would like to send some messages by SMS because the receiving party does not need to have an active internet connection.

I can send a sms using an old Nokia Phone and Gnokii like this (Windows is supported by Gnokii )
But now i would like to create a HS3 script to send this command (i only need one or two scripts to sens SMS)

http://board.homeseer.com/forumdisplay.php?f=1158
this plugin can act on receiving sms also.
only works with siemens phones.
I am actually having trouble with the datacables , cant get them to work at my system....

I only need one or two events which can send a message so a plugin would be to expensive for this I`m already able to send a sms using gnokii, so for now i only need a way to call gnokii using a vb (HS3) script

I have also tried the plugin because it is free to try for 30 days but it looks like te plugin and my Siemens TC35 are not very stable. The connection is lost from time to time and i already tried different USB - Com comverters

Do you also use this plugin and if so, what modem are u using ?

i have a stack of siemens phones now, and some cables but none of them worked good when i tested.
When i searched for some phones to test with the demo time was gone.
I will probably install it on VMware again as demo and see if all works out like i hope it would be and how stable it is.