Generalized Notifications independent of MCV

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Folks,
I have recently taught the Vera Alerts Plugin to be able to be utilized for notifications anywhere the current MCV notifications can be issued. I have also added the option to configure the notification of the message using String Templates. I personally was using both Vera Alerts and Emails for Notification … So I added support for SMTP at the same time.

I realized that the heavy lifting has already been done for the plugin … and it would be easy to extend to other transports:

[ul][li]Vera Alerts (Android) - Already Done[/li]
[li]SMTP Email - Already Done[/li]
[li]Prowl[/li]
[li]SMS[/li]
[li]Sonos Plugin[/li]
[li]Samsung TV On Screen Display Notifier[/li]
[li]Google Calendar as an Event[/li]
[li]…[/li][/ul]

If you want to use multiple transports … create multiple users at MCV (But with no email and an no SMS). In Vera Alerts specify the destination and transport for these Virtual Users.
When you create a notification flag the Virtual User … which implicitly specifies the destination and transport.

I would modify Vera Alerts Settings page to allow different config for each transport.
Is this of interest ? Would this be stepping on the toes of other developers ?

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I’m not a developer, but I found myself wishing vera alerts could be chosen in the notification screen yesterday because setting up scenes to get an alert is not as practical as checking a box to notify on the device page. Text messaging also has some delays and seemed to be unreliable yesterday and also limited to a number of uses per day.

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I found myself wishing vera alerts could be chosen in the notification screen yesterday because setting up scenes to get an alert is not as practical as checking a box to notify on the device page.

That’s what the recent upgrade to Vera Alerts supports.

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Can this plugin be used to send emails it I don’t have an android phone? If so, how?

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SMTP.