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.
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