Re: [hobbit] SMS alerts

[Richard Leyton <richard (at) leyton.org>]

Yes - a lot of success. We're actually using a few companies to  
deliver SMS's and other content (it's a core service for the client I  
support). The hobbit SMS alerts we send are just utilising the same  
service - I've written a simple wrapper script which takes the  
various environment variables, and sends out an SMS to  either a  
group of folk (eg 'ADMINS'), or an individual (eg. 'MGMT' for combo  
alerts).

The actual mechanism is an HTTP GET (so wget does the job nicely),  
with our reference information, to our SMS provider. I understand the  
API also results in a confirmation in some situations, but I've not  
incorporated that as it currently is tied into the customers systems.

I don't know off the top of my head who the SMS companies are, but  
could perhaps find out for you if you're interested. I'm in the UK,  
but I think they have an international presence.

In years gone by (when I was using BB) I found some 'free' SMS  
companies, but that was about as good as a chocolate fire guard.

I might be able to tidy up the script and push it out for others to  
use in due course. Let me know if there's any interest, although it's  
nothing particular fancy.

r.

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On 22 Sep 2006, at 12:30, Jones, Jason ((Altrincham)) wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Anyone had any success with sending out SMS alerts from hobbit? If so
> could you let me know what methods you used and whether we need to
> purchase any software to do this? Reverse charge is acceptable
>
> Thanks,
> Jason.
>
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