With the new 0.79 home assistant release a new component for LTE Router has been added.
This router uses LTE interface and thereof has a SIM card slot.
The interface allows to send SMS and it would be nice to be able to send SMS as notifications.
It appears to me that the component uses https://pypi.org/project/huawei-lte-api/ as backend library, on the pypi website it states that the library allows to send SMS.
Could be it a new feature for this platform on the next release?
Thank you for your reply @scop
Yes it works, I don’t know if it is unreliable by nature or what. I tried 3 or 4 times, A couple of times I found a timeout in the logs. To be honest other sensors of huawei_lte sometimes fails updating. Using it as a notification could be unreliable and therefore not of much sense.
I have a flat data plan on the sim I use in my router. I am available for testing.
I would also love to be able to receive triggers into HA on receipt of an SMS. I have been trying to hack about with things like Kannel to do SMS to MQTT, and alsoTextIt but just being able to to get a on off when message received or not would be great, as I just need a binary sensor, not really the contents of the message for a start…so building an SMS gateway would be a little overkill for what I need.
I have one of these devices which sends status over SMS, but I can think of many other IoT devices that could use SMS as this bearer is now so much cheaper than 10 years ago, when all the IoT devices were on GPRS etc…
WRT to above device I have the device reporting into my traccar instance, I just need to now decoode the HEX into an Open/Closed computed attribute status and then getting the status out of traccar as an attribute into HA will prove tricky…