[olug] groups sms recommendation?

[Rob Townley]

Kinda late to the convo, but yes FlowRoute is good.  Any experience yet?

I have had the following problem bite me a few times.  Just last night,
 LibreOffice Sheets ( don’t believe it  Google admin console ) did the
following which broke a script for me:
"if your text editor changes " to “ — a ‘curly’ or ‘smart’ quote mark — you
will have a UCS-2 character in your message and that will reduce the
character limit from 160 to 70.”
https://www.twilio.com/docs/glossary/what-sms-character-limit

Twilio ( which must have or had some connection to Twitter ) has an api as
well.  Twilio seemed to be the first to offer an _easy_ way to encrypt the
media channels - the voice in voice calls.
https://www.twilio.com/docs/sms/send-messages

Pay-as-you-go SMS pricing
NUMBER USEDTEXT MESSAGESPICTURE MESSAGESMESSAGING SERVICE FEATURES*
TO SEND †‡§TO RECEIVE †§TO SEND †‡§TO RECEIVE †§
LOCAL NUMBERS
$ 0.0079
$ 0.0079
$ 0.0200
$ 0.0100
INCLUDED
TOLL‑FREE NUMBERS
$ 0.0079
$ 0.0079
$ 0.0200
$ 0.0200
INCLUDED
SHORT CODES
$ 0.0079
$ 0.0079

On Mon, Nov 21, 2022 at 9:52 PM Justin Reiners - Reiners Cloud LLC <
justin at reiners.io> wrote:

> I've used flowroute sms api for years. It works great, and it's super easy
> to script it to loop and send a million sms if need be.
>
> Hit me up if you have issues.
>
>
> On Mon, Nov 21, 2022, 9:45 PM Jeff Hinrichs <dundeemt at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Matt: That is a possible route, but I want to exhaust a service only
> route
> > first.
> >
> > Justin: Flowroute, will color me curious.  I use Flowroute for my home
> > phone.
> > I'm going to dig through their docs now.  Thanks for pointing out the
> snake
> > at my feet :)
> > (ha ha a python ref too)
> >
> > On Mon, Nov 21, 2022 at 6:19 PM Justin Reiners - Reiners Cloud LLC <
> > justin at reiners.io> wrote:
> >
> > > Flowroutes sms api works well if you programmatically use the API to
> fire
> > > sms alerts in python too. Partshotlines used to use that setup for web
> > > notifications for thousands of users.
> > >
> > > On Mon, Nov 21, 2022, 6:14 PM Matt Payne <payne at mattpayne.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > > https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33697557 was just posted to
> > > > HackerNe.WS; the modem they mention looks to sell for $89 on Amazon.
> > So,
> > > > maybe a cell phone plan to go with the SIM card in the modem would
> cost
> > > > less than the $24/month?   IDK.   I'm curious about what you end up
> > > doing.
> > > >  --Matt Payne
> > > >
> > > > On Thu, Nov 17, 2022, at 3:20 PM, Matt Payne wrote:
> > > > > I enjoy Telegram.org very much.  I'm http://t.me/MattPayneOrg if
> you
> > > > want to try things out.   Telegram has terrific group support (I'm in
> > > > several) and other features ( I mostly do not use them).
> > > > >
> > > > > If folks have to have text messages, I don't have good ideas.   The
> > old
> > > > sending an email to text is likely not enough to help.  But it might
> > > be.  A
> > > > quick google shows that
> > > > https://www.att.com/support/article/wireless/KM1061254/ and
> > > > https://www.verizon.com/support/text-messaging-faqs/ seem to support
> > the
> > > > old email-to-text bit.
> > > > >
> > > > > I'm curious how this works out.  It's an interesting project.
>  Good
> > > > luck! --Matt Payne
> > > > >
> > > > > On Thu, Nov 17, 2022, at 9:08 AM, Jeff Hinrichs wrote:
> > > > >> I am looking for a group SMS tool - about 65 numbers for a
> > non-profit
> > > > >> philanthropy.
> > > > >> On android/iphone phones, group capabilities are limited and we
> end
> > up
> > > > >> creating multiple groups on individual phones currently.  I'm
> > looking
> > > to
> > > > >> find if there is a better solution.  Anyone care to make a
> > > > recommendation?
> > > > >>
> > > > >> The least expensive web platforms are about 24/month, however we
> are
> > > > not a
> > > > >> money based org and we use it for reminding/calling for
> volunteers.
> > > So
> > > > it
> > > > >> is important to keep the cost as low as possible.
> > > > >>
> > > > >> --
> > > > >> Best,
> > > > >>
> > > > >> Jeff Hinrichs
> > > > >> dundeemt at gmail.com
> > > > >> 402.320.0821
> > > > >> 402.218.1473
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> > Jeff Hinrichs
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