SMS Notification: reply to sender

1

Hello!

I managed to get SMS Notification work by using a SIN800C USB board.
But how can I make an automation answer to the sms sender?
For example, if I send “Light off”, it triggers an automation that shuts off all the lights, and I would to send back something like “all light are off”. I can do it.
But if my wife do the the same, all I know, for now, is to put our 2 phone numbers so we will both be notified. What I want if my automation grab the sms.incoming_sms phone number and respond to it.

Is there a way to do it?

Thanks!

2

Do you get the phone number in the event?

If you listen for the event and then send an sms, do you get the phone number there?
Developer tools → events

3

Hello,

this is what you have in the event:

event_type: sms.incoming_sms
data:
phone: “+33XXXXXX”
date: “2023-03-15 13:43:53”
text: TEST
origin: LOCAL
time_fired: “2023-03-15T12:44:15.742369+00:00”
context:
id: blablabla
parent_id: null
user_id: null

So yes, the sender’s phone number is here :slight_smile:

4

In that case I believe

{{ trigger.event.data.phone }}

should be the phone number you can use to send a reply

if you set up an automation to trigger on sms.incoming_sms

5

There is were I put your command:

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And it’s not working :frowning:

6

Remove any sensitive data and post the automation in yaml. inside a code block </> sign in forum

7

There it is:

> alias: TEST
> description: ""
> trigger:
>   - platform: event
>     event_type: sms.incoming_sms
>     event_data:
>       text: TEST
> condition: []
> action:
>   - type: turn_off
>     device_id: *************
>     entity_id: light.cuisinebulb
>     domain: light
>   - service: notify.sms
>     data:
>       message: >-
>         Eteindre toutes les lumières : lumiere all off  /  mode absent : absent
>         [on/off]
>       target:
>         "[object Object]": null
> mode: single

Target is bot reflecting what is type in the cell in graphical automation !

Replacing the target with:

target: {{ trigger.event.data.phone }}

Don’t work either :frowning:

8

Try and surround it with “” like this:

   target: "{{ trigger.event.data.phone }}"

And please use the correct formatting, it makes reading the code hard when you use blockquote

9

It’s working very well, thanks a lot !