home-assistant-google-assistant-local-sdk VS TextBelt

It’s implemented but it still requires an official Google Assistant smart home skill and a cloud connection to set-up. It works out of the box with Home Assistant Cloud.

It’s kinda cool how it works, as your Google Home Mini will run our JS app and let it interact with Home Assistant. In the case of Home Assistant Cloud, all commands are just forwarded as-is as all processing is always local. You can see the source here https://github.com/NabuCasa/home-assistant-google-assistant-...

Note, syncing local access, exposed devices and any command requiring 2FA still goes via the cloud.

I use paid service textbelt.com (also www.twilio.com is there), they have standard plugin for many languages.

# Path: lib/sms_demo/sms_handler.ex defmodule SmsDemo.SmsHandler do use GenServer def send_message(to_phone, message) do GenServer.cast(SmsDemo.SmsHandler, {:send, {to_phone, message}}) end def receive_message(from_phone, message) do GenServer.cast(SmsDemo.SmsHandler, {:receive, {from_phone, message}}) end def start_link(_) do GenServer.start_link(__MODULE__, [], name: __MODULE__) end def init([]) do {:ok, %{}} end def handle_cast({:send, {phone, message}}, state) do textbelt_url = "https://textbelt.com/text" textbelt_key = Application.get_env(:sms_demo, :textbelt_key) replyWebhookUrl = Application.get_env(:sms_demo, :webhook_url) params = %{ phone: phone, message: message, key: textbelt_key, replyWebhookUrl: replyWebhookUrl } HTTPoison.post(textbelt_url, Poison.encode!(params), [{"Content-type", "application/json"}]) {:noreply, state} end def handle_cast({:receive, {phone, message}}, state) do # TODO: Do something with the message {:noreply, state} end end

You can look into this: https://github.com/typpo/textbelt

I settled on https://textbelt.com/ since it was cheap, a curl one-liner to use and didn't require me to install something new on my phone.

% long-running-job.sh ; sms "the job is done"