I am looking for any sort of iPhone function for sending messages that can be accessed by an Alexa skill that is able to send SMS text messages, as well as read SMS text messages of a user. I know that these skills are already present, however, I am looking to do this in combination with numerous other features which I have already finished.
Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks!
Alex Skills normally run as Amazon Lambda functions. Lambda functions can call other AWS services (from the cloud, not from the phone).
Amazon SNS can send an SMS message. Here is an example using the AWS Command-Line Interface (CLI):
aws sns publish --phone-number +XXXX --message "Hello!"
However, if you are looking to send messages from the phone itself, or read messages that are already on the phone, then you will need to write an iPhone app than can use the iOS APIs to send/receive messages. This would not, however, be an 'Alex Skill' since it is running on the phone.
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So I need to programmatically receive text messages from a shortcode. Twilio does not support this. Anybody know a service like Twilio but that is able to receive SMS messages from a short code sender?
Just to be clear. I need to receive a text message from a shortcode to a 10 digit number, not send from a shortcode.
Most services (Twilio, call fire) that let you send from a shortcode can not receive a text message from a shortcode
This can’t be done, shortcodes are unique to each carrier network, when a short code is available across multiple carriers it is implemented on each carrier separatly.
Also shortcodes are not international so 54321 could be used in both the UK and US by totally separate services.
SMS providers like Twilio and Vonage connect to the carriers in the same way as the shortcodes do, they are both an application connection. The carriers do not permit app to app messaging through their network so a shortcode app will only ever be able to send to a real subscriber with a SIM card.
You might find some providers that offer an SMS API by using banks of hosted SIM cards but this can be very flakey and you are usually sharing the number. The other option might be to look at hosting your own SIM card in a usb single or such and recieve the SMS that way.
Actually, Twillio does support this now, although with a big disclaimer that it "cannot guarantee that every short code globally will be able to reach Twilio numbers"
https://support.twilio.com/hc/en-us/articles/223181668-Can-Twilio-numbers-receive-SMS-from-a-short-code-?_ga=2.202438166.641482548.1608644940-210958917.1588771372
I think this article might be just what you're looking for https://help.nexmo.com/hc/en-us/articles/216487658-Inbound-SMS-on-dedicated-US-short-code
You should be able to receive SMS messages on a dedicated US Shortcode.
I am working on automating the trade signals generated in metatrader 4. Idea is to encode the buy/sell signals into message and send to a python telegram receiver code which will decode the message and take appropriate action (like placing orders with broker using broker provided python APIs). any idea how this can be done?
I have so far tried below code, which receives message from my telegram account and replies same text back.
https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/blob/master/examples/echobot2.py
my requirement is instead of using telegram account on mobile, i need it in the metatrader
today with bit of struggle i figured out a way to achieve my requirement. not an efficient solution but its working. so i am explaining below,
MT4 EA code: once buy/sell signals generated, a message is sent to my first telegram bot (call it A_bot).
A_bot: forwards the received message to second bot(call it B_bot)
python server on vps: same token as that of B_bot is listening to incoming messages. in other words python version of B_bot is listening to incoming messages.
so when A_bot forwards the message recieved by MT4 EA to B_bot, copy of same message is received is received by python server. So in python server code now i am able to process the message and place order accordingly.
so the original problem is i can't do this with just A_bot. there is an extra step involved to forward message from one telegram bot to another to make it work. for this i am using android app Tforwarder.
Is there anyway to send the same text to multiple contacts not as a group text. I have been told that it would need a server to accomplish this. If that is the case I would like to be able to still send texts from my current number not a new number. I have checked out Twilio but have not gotten very far.
Twilio developer evangelist here.
You cannot send mass text messages using Twilio and your existing phone number.
One option you might have is, if you have a Mac you can control the SMS app programmatically to send lots of SMS messages. Here's a blog post with some example code to do that: https://www.twilio.com/blog/2017/06/drawing-pixel-art-text-messages-signal-video-wall.html
That might not be of much help, but while you can send lots of SMS messages with Twilio, you cannot do so using your existing number.
Yes you could send mass texts out to different numbers using twilio. No you could not use your current number.
You would have to purchase a new twilio number that has SMS messaging enabled.
Look at the Twilio documentation and their get started guide, figure out the language you want to create your server in and you will be sending texts in no time. https://www.twilio.com/docs/quickstart/node/programmable-sms You would run the webserver. Twilio does not offer a swift or ios based SMS solution.
https://www.twilio.com/docs/quickstart?filter-language=swift
I'm using Facebook Chat API in an iOS app. I already can send a message successfully to a Facebook friend. Now I'm wondering if a can send the same message to multiple recipients.
I don't know if it's technically possible or there's any limitation about that.
I know that I can create N messages for N users and send one by one. But depending on the number of Facebook friends that the user can select, it can take a long time until all the messages are delivered. If this is the only case, should I open one different thread for each message that is going to be sent with the XMPP stream?
I appreciate any resolution or clue for this question.
There's an XMPP extension XEP-0033: Extended Stanza Addressing which supports multicasting messages to multiple recipients. The extension has progressed to draft status, however few XMPP servers or clients support it. I doubt Facebook Chat does, and couldn't find any mention in the XMPPFramework source.
I don't think there's a better way than sending the same message to multiple recipients. Some servers may require you to pause between sending lots of identical messages, and I wouldn't be surprised if that were true of Facebook Chat.
Multi-User Chat is another way to accomplish this with XMPP, but unfortunately Facebook Chat doesn't support MUC.
I am trying to find out the Uptime and Downtime of a website using article which monitors using Google Docs scripts. The script also sends a text message using SMS when a site is down.
I used 5 Mobile numbers for testing, out of which only one phone was able to get the notification. The other 4 phones have DND(Do Not Disturb) activated, which I presume is the reason why the SMS doesn't get delivered.
My Concern is that while associating with Google calender when I put that DND(Do Not Disturb) number they got verification code and after putting that Verification code they register. So for verification they are getting the SMS but they are not getting the alert when web site is down or up.
A service like downnotifier.com is also free (except the price for SMS messages) and made to do these kind of things.