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🔔 Notify Mi simplifies sending yourself text and email notifcations from your personal projects by utilizing your gmail account.
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🔔 Notify Mi simplifies sending yourself text and email notifications from your personal projects by utilizing your gmail account. It is a convenient and cost-effective solution with the goal of providing you aneasy andfree way to send messages in response to events.
Notify Mi is particularly useful when working with IoT devices. It can allow you to receive messages in response to events such as when a sensor value reaches a certain threshold, when a sensor detects something, when a sensor encounters an error, or when a daily or custom timed event occurs. This makes it easy to keep track of what is happening with your IoT device and react to any change or issue that may arise.
With Notify Mi, you can alsoattach a file with your text or email message. The maximum file size allowed is 1 MB and you can use any of the 69supported file types, thus providing you flexibility in the type of attachment you want to include in your messages.
Sending notifications through your Gmail account is not a novel idea. Notify Mi is designed to be amodular andreliable way to send notifications without having to spend time and effort figuring out how to do it each time you want to add this feature to your project. Plus, the implementation process is straightforward andtakes only a couple of minutes. This way, you can focus on other aspects of your project andsave time.
Generate an app password for your gmail account by clickinghere.
⤷ place your gmail and app password in a tuple:
⤷ ("gmail_address", "app_password") ⤶
⤷ (optional) step by stepguide on how to generate an app password.Install Notify Mi
# 2. install notify_mi using pippipinstallnotify_mi# ✔️ That's it, now you are ready to use
fromnotify_miimportnotify
# send only a text message# include phone_number and phone_provider (see providers list below)# phone number: "(619) 123-4567", "619-123-4567", or "6191234567" (all acceptable)notify.send_message("Hello World!", ("gmail","app_password"),phone_number="your_number",phone_provider="your_phone_provider")
# send text message + email# include phone_number, phone_provider (see providers list below), and receiver email# phone number: "(619) 123-4567", "619-123-4567", or "6191234567" (all acceptable)notify.send_message("Hello World!", ("gmail","app_password"),phone_number="your_number",phone_provider="your_phone_provider",send_to="email@gmail.com")
# send only email# include receiver emailnotify.send_message("Hello World!", ("gmail","app_password"),send_to="email@gmail.com")
# add a subject line to the messagenotify.send_message(subject="EMERGENCY",message="No sweets detected in fridge!")# add a file attachment (69 file types supported)notify.send_message(subject="I found it",message="My dream car",file_attachment="/path/car.png")# run without blocking main threadnotify.send_message("Hello World!",threaded=True)
# this is all the parameters you can usenotify.send_message(threaded=True,file_attachment="/path/to/file"phone_number="your_number",phone_provider="your_phone_provider",send_to="email@gmail.com",sender_credentials= ("gmail","app_password"),message="No sweets detected in fridge!")
# Select From:"AT&T","Boost Mobile","C-Spire","Cricket Wireless","Consumer Cellular","Google Project Fi","Metro PCS","Mint Mobile","Page Plus","Republic Wireless","Sprint","Straight Talk","T-Mobile","Ting","Tracfone","U.S. Cellular","Verizon","Virgin Mobile","Xfinity Mobile"
Alfredo Sequeida for writing a detailedarticle and for making a greatvideo that went step by step on how to send text messages using python. It was very useful for one of my projects so I am adding to what he did so that other people can find it useful.
Alfredo also made a package namedetext so check that out!
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