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Sending an alarm as SMS

It is possible to send an E-mail message to a special converter service so that it is converted to an SMS which can be recieved on a mobile phone.

Some telephone companys have a free service that you can use. Alternatively searching for e.g eSMS or similar on the internet should provide you with various links to relevant service providers. Note that you will generally need an account to use for billing/payment purposes.

The following is an example example is based on one of the SMS providers.

First of all we have created an account at the SMS provider.

Secondly we have created an e-mail profile based on the service profile.

The actual format of the To, Subject and Text fields has to comply with the requirements from the SMS provider. In the above example we have limited the alarm-types that would be sent via SMS to number 1 (Cover Open), purely for test and demonstration purposes.

The API_ID, User and Password fields must of course match your own account information with the SMS provider.

We have used the service provided by Clickatell for this example. Note that we have no relations with the firm and can not be held responsible for any problems you might experience.