Re: [PLUG] Sending notifications from remote equipment

2021-01-12 Thread Tom
On Tue, 12 Jan 2021 14:43:36 -0800 Tom wrote: > If you have internet you can use a utility like sendxmpp. It's a small > perl script that does what sendmail does, but for XMPP. > https://sendxmpp.hostname.sk/ There are lots of volunteer run open > registration XMPP servers out there, a good list

Re: [PLUG] Sending notifications from remote equipment

2021-01-12 Thread Tom
On Sat, 9 Jan 2021 09:53:00 -0800 Michael Barnes wrote: > Here's an interesting challenge. Another no-budget project. I have > some remote equipment that I need to occasionally receive an alarm > alert from. The equipment provides a contact closure in an alarm > condition. In the past for this

Re: [PLUG] Sending notifications from remote equipment

2021-01-09 Thread wes
On Sat, Jan 9, 2021 at 9:53 AM Michael Barnes wrote: > There is a local network with Internet available. > ... > I do not have access to an SMTP server that can send external email. > > These two statements seem paradoxical to me. In the worst case, you should be able to submit an email directly

Re: [PLUG] Sending notifications from remote equipment

2021-01-09 Thread John Sechrest
There was a guy that I ran across who was doing an IOT sensor that was essentially a little tiny cell phone (no keyboard/display), which had a prepurchased agreement for a certain number of SMS messages. It was an interesting solution for this type of thing. The name of the company he was

Re: [PLUG] Sending notifications from remote equipment

2021-01-09 Thread Bill Barry
On Sat, Jan 9, 2021 at 11:53 AM Michael Barnes wrote: > > Here's an interesting challenge. Another no-budget project. I have some > remote equipment that I need to occasionally receive an alarm alert from. > The equipment provides a contact closure in an alarm condition. In the past > for this

[PLUG] Sending notifications from remote equipment

2021-01-09 Thread Michael Barnes
Here's an interesting challenge. Another no-budget project. I have some remote equipment that I need to occasionally receive an alarm alert from. The equipment provides a contact closure in an alarm condition. In the past for this type of thing, I used an old autodialer that simply picked up a