Looking for recommendations on how to SMS from a computer, á la Pushbullet or some such. Currently using Google Messages with companion desktop/web app and love the experience, but am on a de-Googling quest and looking for alternatives.
Prefer FOSS options (love the Fossify stuff, for example) but an willing to pay a slight premium if required. Would like solution to be compatible with any web browser and Windows but Linux (Mint) would work, too.
Any suggestions are welcome. Thanks in advance!
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I use Element (Matrix) on desktop, phone and tablet. Currently with signal, IRC, Discord, etc. I will eventually try the SMS bridge, but I hear it works well. I run my own non-federated server (synapse) in docker.
For Windows you can use KDE Connect (and also MacOS) or Microsoft Phone.
For Linux Mint there’s KDE Connect or GSConnect (GNOME Extension) though I don’t use GNOME often, I remember liking KDE Connect better still.
It’s probably too complex for what you’re looking for, but https://www.kannel.org/ is a large-scale SMS gateway.
Does https://pushover.net/ work for you? Been using it for several years, works really well and can be used in several applications.
Or some minor scripting with curl.
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I’ll look into it, but I’m in favor of SMS exclusively (syncing) so I can see all/whole conversations and to just get all notifications and quick-reply to the texts as I get them.
Could you elaborate on how to implement the
curlsolution?I mis understood, sms is pretty much history over here, so I considered you where looking for some way of sending messages to your phone.
Pushover supports a simple api, which can be used with curl. A la: https://support.pushover.net/i44-example-code-and-pushover-libraries#unix
You might want to look into KDE connect. I don’t use it myself, but it might be what you’re looking for.
Yes, but be aware that it only works when both devices are in the same LAN.
So it’s totally useless as a communication tool
How so? I don’t think that is referring to an SMS recipient, just the sender’s computer and phone each running Connect need to be on the same network.
Does it really need to be said that OP is probably trying to retain the ability to send messages outside of his own network?
It can do that. It’s just that the computer and the device sending the messages need to be on the same network. Not the device receiving the messages.
Ahhh okay okay, maybe I misunderstood. I was under the impression that it could only send messages between devices on the same LAN.
I’ve used Twilio for that. There is a simple JSON API with code examples on their site.
I don’t think this is what OP is looking for