[implemented]Pimatic SMS Plugin

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it would be great to send sms with pimatic. Apply via google calendar-“hack” or SMS77.

https://gist.github.com/mhawksey/1658408
http://www.sms77.de/api.pdf

@n3ro The problem is there are so many SMS providers out there. An easy solution may be to use the pimatic-mail plugin and the mail2sms gateway of your mobile service operator. Most operators in Germany offer this service.

See the following links, for example
http://www.tipps-tricks-kniffe.de/t-mobile-e-mails-als-sms-versenden-und-empfangen/
https://www.t-mobile.de/suche/1,1840,2013-_,00.html?qt=sms&vgn_form_encoding=ISO-8859-1

THX mwittig!

The variation with google calendar would also be very nice. the sending is completely free and works in every country.

@n3ro I have just tried the Calendar Trick manually, which works fine for me. It is even possible to set a SMS Reminder, e.g. one minute before the scheduled start date by overriding the reminder defaults. I have tried this using the Google API Explorer. This way, only a single Gmail account is required.

If enough users upvote this feature I am happy to investigate this further

Example Request for use with API Explorer

POST https://www.googleapis.com/calendar/v3/calendars/{USER}%40googlemail.com/events?key={YOUR_API_KEY}

Enable OAuth 2.0,
The URL above is just for information
 
{
 "reminders": {
  "overrides": [
   {
    "method": "sms",
    "minutes": 1
   }
  ],
  "useDefault": false
 },
 "start": {
  "dateTime": "2015-04-20T13:44:00Z"
 },
 "summary": "Meeting",
 "end": {
  "dateTime": "2015-04-20T14:40:00Z"
 }
}

This would be cool! Big thx for your time

please upvote the first post too if you. this is necessary so that we can see all the votes at the parent forum for comparison.

imho not only the sms function would be an interesting feature, we have also talked about a calendar function for pimatic here pimatic/pimatic#388
would be a great feature to have a calendar based time schedule for devices for example

@leader21 That’s interesting. Thanks for the pointer to the github issue!

If I got this right the idea to be able to use calendar schedule items as part of Pimatic rules?! How cool is that

Regarding the desired SMS feature I believe this more of a side product and we should focus on the general features of a google-calendar integration:

• a calendar publisher to create Google Calendar Items using pimatic rule actions
• a calendar subscriber to get notified on calendar events and to be able to use the events as part of rule conditions

may you try Twillio, they have a easy REST API to send SMS over the world. Here an example in perl:

my $url = sprintf('https://api.twilio.com/2010-04-01/Accounts/%s/Messages.json', $cfg->{account_sid});
   my $curl = sprintf(
      "curl -s -X POST %s --data-urlencode 'To=%s'  --data-urlencode 'From=%s'  --data-urlencode 'Body=%s' -u %s:%s",
         $url, $cfg->{to}, $cfg->{from}, $msg, $cfg->{account_sid}, $cfg->{auth_token}```

In combination with the shell plugin it's possible to send SMS from pimatic.

@xpix Thanks for pointing this out. I think this a good solution if one is willing to pay 7 cents per SMS.

I like the idea to have Google calendar intergration too!

The SMS part is possible, but imho not that important because once Google notices too much missuse of it it will put a stop to it. And there are other notification possibilities like pushover and pushbullet allready made for pimatic.

@Frits1980 said:

I like the idea to have Google calendar intergration too!

Great. Feel free to upvote my post containing the “Example Request for use with API Explorer”.

You are absolutely right that Google might block the SMS feature if it is misused. As I said earlier I much in favor of the idea of creating a Google Calendar Plugin where the SMS-thingy is just a side product. Beside a calendar publisher the hot feature is perhaps the calendar subscriber to let Pimatic be notified on calendar events and to be able to use the events as part of rule conditions. This way you may be able to program your heating at home using calendar events, for example.

I’ll create a new topic for this.

You guys might like to try my pimatic-sms plugin I just created. It supports Twilio & a hong kong provider (so you can sent free SMS to yourself if you are on that provider).

nice work! thx for that.

@mwittig said in Pimatic SMS Plugin:

An easy solution may be to use the pimatic-mail plugin and the mail2sms gateway of your mobile service operator. Most operators in Germany offer this service.

All providers in US offer this too - I think a plugin with some settings for providers and a list of settings for providers may go a long way, then people can keep adding settings as we gather info. 7cents a message is a waste.

@Enis-Hoca said in Pimatic SMS Plugin:

I think a plugin with some settings for providers and a list of settings for providers may go a long way

Yes this would be nice. The following lists appears to be fairly comprehensive and also contains further instruction for the majority of services - http://mfitzp.io/list-of-email-to-sms-gateways/

This could be set to Implemented

@n3ro said in Pimatic SMS Plugin:

This could be set to Implemented

@leader21

implemented via pimatic-sms
nevertheless there need to be some more providers added if requested in future