Letterbox SMS

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Yorkshirekid

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#223414 28-Sep-2017 13:53

I've had a quick search and can't see a Post on this topic / project.

I'm looking to build some system (and I know zip about electronics - but I can follow a plan), that alerts me, via a text message, when something is put into my letterbox.

I've found a few old projects on Instructables, but I was hoping someone in NZ has had success with such a project and could help me through it please.

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muppet

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#1874114 28-Sep-2017 14:01

Rather than pay for SMS, why not use something like pushover?

It's a one off cost for the client (or if you need to support Android and iPhone then 2 x cost, and then there's the web client as well) and then you can send "as many" pushes as you want. I think it's 7500 a month before you have to buy more.

Sorry I can't help with any of the other stuff, but I use pushover for heaps of stuff and it's really great.

davidcole

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#1874173 28-Sep-2017 15:07

What is doing the detecting?

The other bits are fairly easy. Pushover/email etc.

Could use mqttwarn https://github.com/jpmens/mqttwarn (which does need a machine with mosquitto server on it - https://mosquitto.org/ , but if this is the start of playing with home automation that's not a bad idea.

I've just been playing with a Wemos D1 Mini, and using a library called PubSubClient for sending mqtt messages. Then rather than having to deal with the pushover/smtp/growl apis on an arduino machine, a full size linux machine running mqttwarn is able to splatter any notifications in all sorts of directions.

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