Just setup a door sensor to send me SMS messages… took awhile to even get vera to send them at all. But, when I finally got 1 to go through it took 27 minutes to show up on my phone. Is this delay typical of what others have experienced? ???
An earlier thread (in which I and others experienced an SMS delay of 20-odd minutes) confirms you are not alone. Sorry no URL to share, but you can search on the terms: notification delayed
is the delay longer/shorter/the same for email notifications?
When I had delays, they were on the order of 22 minutes (email). I only have SMS notifications set now for when I’m away and someone else comes into my home. So I can’t tell you the (SMS) delay, if any.
But lately, with .899 and now .918, I am not experiencing any email delay at all.
I see delays from 0 (no delay) to many hours… It’s unpredictable and unreliable. Emails work for the most part much better.
I use SMS authentication on Paypal - SMS always comes within 10-20 sec.
So it really depends how and via what system you send it; or it’s also possible that findvera queuing messages for too long.
How can I setup the SMS/email outside of the findvera service? I’d like to use a faster/more reliable carrier closer to Canada.
I stopped getting email event notifications - an infinite delay. I think this occurred when 616 went historical. I thought this was a feature since there was an option to select notification when creating events. I have the notify via email selected under the user tab.
who knows how to setup sms without using findvera?
There’s no user friendly way to my knowledge - you’d have to put at least few lines Luup code at the scene, it would check the condition and call wget on URL that make the SMS provider to send a message.
I think we could benefit if MCV could make notification mechanism in Vera as a Luup plugin, which would make it easy to setup for not-Luup-enabled users…
[quote=“325xi, post:6, topic:165012”]I use SMS authentication on Paypal - SMS always comes within 10-20 sec.
So it really depends how and via what system you send it; or it’s also possible that findvera queuing messages for too long.[/quote]
325 could you explain this a little more, are you using this service with vera? if so, how did you set it up?
[quote=“B0SST0N, post:11, topic:165012”][quote=“325xi, post:6, topic:165012”]I use SMS authentication on Paypal - SMS always comes within 10-20 sec.
So it really depends how and via what system you send it; or it’s also possible that findvera queuing messages for too long.[/quote]
325 could you explain this a little more, are you using this service with vera? if so, how did you set it up?[/quote]
I think you simply misread him - it has nothing to do with Vera, just the fact that other services send out SMS messages more reliably.
BTW, for the past few days SMS messages were working more reliable. When I can verify the event (i.e. I’m home), they worked within few seconds.
Also, looks like MCV simplified the SMS/email format recently. Not sure if there is a correlation between these two things… 
How to use Paypal with Vera? That’s easy! I can make a plugin
Seriously, notification module isn’t pluggable, which I hope will change with time. Telemessage allows to send SMS by simply posting URL with parameters in your browser - or from Vera’s plugin. That is, you can use it in plugins with addition some code like
if (something) then wget(SMS service URL)