SMS Gateway for BRX

[MarkTTU]

Yup turns out SS8 is a short string limited at 64 characters. Time to try the SL that can go up to 256 characters.

Since I have already typed all this out, I'm going to post it. Maybe someone else can benefit from my blundering 

Glad you got it figured out and that you posted it for others to hopefully learn from too. 

In that same hopefully helpful vein; I wound up creating a new (small) memory block of 1024 character strings for working with emails and texts which cleared up a lot of weirdness that I kept banging my head against a wall about.

[ADC Product Engineer]

SSx registers are 64 characters.  in order to have 1024, you need to make a new string register that can hold that many characters.  System Configuration -> MemoryConfiguration -> Add Memory Block: String Structure, String Length 1024 characters.

[Bolt]

I've been working with sending SMS messages from the BRX the last week. To get it going required setting up a server with an API that the BRX could talk to. As I was troubleshooting a few things this week I realized if someone else had already created a SMS service and all I had to do was subscribe and then send messages from the BRX to a server in the cloud I'd have happily done it. Would anyone else find this type of thing useful?

Hi Mark, did you ever get this project off the ground?  If so, can I have more information?  I'm ready for a change.

[MarkTTU]

I've been working with sending SMS messages from the BRX the last week. To get it going required setting up a server with an API that the BRX could talk to. As I was troubleshooting a few things this week I realized if someone else had already created a SMS service and all I had to do was subscribe and then send messages from the BRX to a server in the cloud I'd have happily done it. Would anyone else find this type of thing useful?

Hi Mark, did you ever get this project off the ground?  If so, can I have more information?  I'm ready for a change.

I didn?t get any responses to make time think anyone else cared so never tried to create a system for others to use. I could probably do that if it?s something you?d find useful.

[Bolt]

I've been playing with other SMTP gateways lately, having much more reliable results.  Gmail and sending to vtext.com is not very predictable.  I'm going to roll out some new SMTP devices in my field PLC's and see where I end up.  Thanks!

[MarkTTU]

I've been playing with other SMTP gateways lately, having much more reliable results.  Gmail and sending to vtext.com is not very predictable.  I'm going to roll out some new SMTP devices in my field PLC's and see where I end up.  Thanks!

You might also check out https://www.twilio.com/sms

[Mike@Forshock]

If you have access to the set domain DNS records, I highly recommend using a service like SMTP2Go.
It is a sort of SMTP proxy and is trusted by most carriers and delivery is much more reliable than Gmail.

This allows companies that use Microsoft 365, GMail (Free and Work) to also prevent using the less secure authentication (SMTP/POP). Unique username and password for each account if you prefer.  We use it for all of our clients, with each having a budget of emails allowed per hour, day, etc.

Works with VZW, ATT, Tmo, etc.