Is there a length limit of the message?

Apps & Remote Access VeraAlerts
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I have the following code below in a scene to speak the weather. It fires when I disarm the alarm in the morning. It worked yesterday, but right now, it stops talking at “… with a high today”. If it said “… with a high today of” I would think it was a problem pulling the variable for the high temp. But it stops at “today”.

I know C2DM has a limit of 1024 characters, but I don’t think this message is anywhere near that. Thoughts?

[code]local currentTemp = luup.variable_get(“urn:upnp-org:serviceId:TemperatureSensor1”, “CurrentTemperature”, 48)
local lowTemp = luup.variable_get(“urn:upnp-org:serviceId:TemperatureSensor1”, “CurrentTemperature”, 49)
local highTemp = luup.variable_get(“urn:upnp-org:serviceId:TemperatureSensor1”, “CurrentTemperature”, 50)
local currentCondition = luup.variable_get(“urn:upnp-micasaverde-com:serviceId:Weather1”, “Condition”, 47)
local currentWind = luup.variable_get(“urn:upnp-micasaverde-com:serviceId:Weather1”, “WindCondition”, 47)

local speakMessage = "{tone:1} Good Morning. Current conditions are " … currentCondition … " with wind " … currentWind … ". The temperature is " … currentTemp … " degrees with a high today of " … highTemp … " and a low of " … lowTemp

luup.call_action(“urn:richardgreen:serviceId:VeraAlert1”, “SendAlert”,
{Message = speakMessage, Recipients = “”}, 46)[/code]

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The wind description has gotten a bit longer, and now the message stops earlier. This must be a length issue with either C2DM or Vera Alert. If it’s with C2DM, google is encouraging devs to move over to GCM, which allows 4 times more data in a single message. Also, providing direct socket connection to the Android device would avoid length limits with C2DM and GCM.

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I kept adding things to string in the “immediate send” from the Vera Device control tab. The message was pretty long … What size are you trying to send ?

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That’s the weird thing. I can put pretty long messages into the Send field under the Vera Alerts object and they work fine. But the weather thing I made was flaking out as I noted above, and it certainly wasn’t longer than some of the tests I sent via the Send button.

Create a scene with the code above and run it. It seems like when the wind data is long, that’s when it has problems.