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How To SMS From PINK

lenswerkslenswerks Posts: 40
edited 2009-01-16 20:42 in General Discussion
How I send SMS using the PINK.
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This may be common knowledge to many, but useful to those who may not be aware of how to SMS from the PINK.
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Email is great, but in many cases it is not timely enough for a security design or other event you want to be aware of in almost realtime.
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To send SMS using the PINK, in this example for AT&T, set the NB_varET which is the e-mail TO address to: YourCellPhoneNumber@txt.att.net.
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Here are the mail domains for other carriers.
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Nextel -- @messaging.nextel.com
Verizon -- @vtext.com ·
T-Mobil -- @tmomail.net
Sprint -- @messaging.sprintpcs.com

Donnie

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  • Chris SavageChris Savage Parallax Engineering Posts: 14,406
    edited 2008-10-27 16:18
    Donnie,

    This is exactly how my Alarm System alerts me of events. Of course, it requires the e-mail server connected to the PINK to support plain text e-mail authentication (or not require authentication). Unfortunately as a sign of the times I have been getting e-mail from AT&T lately (for a few months now) saying they’ve noticed I haven’t been using ‘secure settings’ for my e-mail and that I need to change them immediately to continue to be able to send e-mail. It only happens when the PINK module sends an e-mail, which is rarely, but eventually it may not work. In any event by sending e-mail to my vtext address I get a text message on my Cell Phone and that is a nice feature. Of course, my own experience is that many of Verizon’s text messages end up in the void, but I digress.

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    Parallax Engineering
  • SquelchSquelch Posts: 3
    edited 2009-01-15 20:14
    I realize that this is a couple of months old, but with the issue of authentication in mind,·are there any plans to update the firmware on the pink to support it?

    I've got two more ISP's that just shut it down, and I really don't link not getting updates from two of my remote sites.





    Thanks

    John
  • Chris SavageChris Savage Parallax Engineering Posts: 14,406
    edited 2009-01-15 21:57
    John,

    It is of course something we’re looking at. But we wouldn’t have any kind of target date when we might be able to get it implemented. Take care.

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    Parallax Engineering
  • steve_bsteve_b Posts: 1,563
    edited 2009-01-16 13:18
    Hi Chris, I thought this was added to the firmware?

    Or was this for smtp/pop email?

    Cheers

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  • Chris SavageChris Savage Parallax Engineering Posts: 14,406
    edited 2009-01-16 18:22
    Steve,

    You are correct…normal (plain text) authentication is built into the current firmware however SSL is not. I think I assumed he meant SSL since as soon as we got the plain text authentication we have been asked for SSL support, which also usually goes hand in hand with changing the SMTP port. That is something we’re looking at. So John, if you have an older firmware you can contact our Tech Support about having it sent in for an upgrade. Take care, and thanks for noticing my missed point Steve.

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  • SquelchSquelch Posts: 3
    edited 2009-01-16 18:46
    Yes, I've got the plain text authentication, but I'm looking for SSL support on e-mail.
    Changing the port would be nice too, changing the port of the webserver would also be a great help.
  • Chris SavageChris Savage Parallax Engineering Posts: 14,406
    edited 2009-01-16 19:36
    Currently there are working base-code libraries for the SB70 that I am aware of. Once someone develops one we’ll see about integrating it into our firmware and at that time look at adding custom port variables for SMTP and HTTP.

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  • SquelchSquelch Posts: 3
    edited 2009-01-16 20:23
    OK, I can see how the SSL might take some time, but adding a field in the setup for the port address sould be an easy one.
    For most applications, if there was a way to select the e-mail and HTTP ports that the PINK uses, it would resolve MANY remote access/ISP issues, and then SSL might not even be needed.

    Follow me on this, many consumer ISP's are requering SSL for e-mail login, and they block the standard ports for e-mail and HTTP preventing people from running their own mail/web servers.

    If you could select the port address on the PINK, there are many services (www.no-ip.com comes to mind) that offer alternate port e-mail, without SSL.

    Kills two birds with one stone...
  • Chris SavageChris Savage Parallax Engineering Posts: 14,406
    edited 2009-01-16 20:42
    So far every system I have seen that requires a non-standard SMTP port also requires SSL. Changing one for now also means that instead of one firmware update we need two. Please bear in mind that every time we make change the software has to be fully tested and even then sometimes something gets affected by a change to something else and we don’t catch it until a customer reports the issue later on down the road. So you see, each change has to be worth the time spent to do it. Once we have an SSL library we will look at making all three changes at the same time. Take care.

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