I’d like to be able to control certain Veralite scenes remotely, where cell service (SMS) is available but data is not.
I thought maybe a text message (SMS) could trigger a scene.
Can this be done ?
Thanks in advance.
In order to run a scene on Vera, via an SMS message, you would need a computer/SMS gateway to receive the SMS message. That device would then need to recognize your SMS message and send an HTTP request to Vera to run the scene.
[quote=“svanni, post:1, topic:182806”]I’d like to be able to control certain Veralite scenes remotely, where cell service (SMS) is available but data is not.
I thought maybe a text message (SMS) could trigger a scene.
Can this be done ?
Thanks in advance.[/quote]
If you connect an Android phone in the LAN where your Vera exists you should be able to make a Tasker script call a local URL on your Vera that triggers a scene to be run.
If your a programmer you can check out telapi.com which can do what you want
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i use the IFTTT.com and dropbox.com to do this (both free). I have a recipe on IFTTT that is triggered when it receives a text message. The recipe then creates a file in my dropbox account with the command i texted. I have a mac sitting at home that has dropbox installed and an automator script that checks that folder and makes calls to vera depending on the command. the commands look like this:
curl --silent -o /dev/null ‘http://IP_OF_VERA:3480/data_request?id=lu_action&serviceId=urn:micasaverde-com:serviceId:HomeAutomationGateway1&action=RunScene&SceneNum=9’
hope this helps!
Triggering by SMS has NO security …
Skip SMS altogether … just use one of the remote apps from your Mobile phone to run your scene …
See:
http://forum.micasaverde.com/index.php/board,12.0.html
You can also text to an email address.
removing the requirement to have something on the other end that receives SMS specifically.
If you have access to a phone though, imperihome is great and works remotely