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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/crua9 on 2026-07-23 18:17:52+00:00.
So I know about the email thing @tmomail.net or whatever the service is.
It works sometimes. But I think their internal spam filter prevents a lot of it. And it's a hit or miss if a message comes across.
Due to this, I wonder if there is a better free method.
I know about some paid services. But the problem with them is they charge for incoming and I can see a bot killing that. And then going for prepaid, I might as well use the contract thing and get unlimited since it isn't that far off. But I don't want to deal with any of that.
The alerts that is sent is mostly hey the fire alarm is going off or something like that. So it happening is hopefully an extremely rare event.
The other method is have is if my phone uses the app and then my phone automatically sends other people the text. But it clogs things up. Plus for some reason I need to open the phone before it gets notifications from the app. So if it is just in my pocket for hours. Then ya.
Does anyone know of any other method I can use? Something free? Like is there a way to hook it to a Google voice number or something like that.