node-red-contrib-46elks

Node-Red for interfacing with the 46elks API. 46elks offers SMS, MMS and Phone calls. Transparent pricing, no startup fees, no minimum monthly costs. In its current state this nodes only supports one-way SMS, but might in the future offer two-way SMS and MMS.

Features

• Full support of the 46elks' one-way SMS API.
• Feature to send bulk SMS message to several numbers.

Nodes in Detail

Start Using

1. Sign up for an account at 46elks.com/register-get-account.

2. Import the following flow into node-red.

   [{"id":"1276943a.ccdb0c","type":"inject","z":"c3bc17c8.36e3c8","name":"","props":[{"p":"payload"},{"p":"topic","vt":"str"}],"repeat":"","crontab":"","once":false,"onceDelay":0.1,"topic":"","payload":"","payloadType":"date","x":280,"y":460,"wires":[["9882a545.76dc18"]]},{"id":"eed869aa.0e8f98","type":"debug","z":"c3bc17c8.36e3c8","name":"","active":true,"tosidebar":true,"console":false,"tostatus":false,"complete":"true","targetType":"full","statusVal":"","statusType":"auto","x":690,"y":460,"wires":[]},{"id":"9882a545.76dc18","type":"send-sms","z":"c3bc17c8.36e3c8","name":"","message":"","numbers":"","dryrun":false,"flashsms":false,"dontlog":false,"throttle":"","elks":"","x":490,"y":460,"wires":[["eed869aa.0e8f98"]]}]

3. Create a new elksConfig by copy and paste the API Username and Password from the account page at 46elks.com/account. Fill in the From field with a name of your choosing.

4. Fill in a random message, for example "Test" in the Message Field, ands a Number in E.164 format in the Number field.

5.Inject a timestamp and wait for the SMS message to be delivered to your phone.

To Do List

1. Add fields in msg.payload for dryrun, flash SMS, don't log and throttle.
2. MMS functionality
3. SMS receive functionality

Install

Run the following command in the root directory of your Node-RED install

npm install node-red-contrib-46elks

Tests

No tests for version 0.1.0

Version

0.1.0 base

Author

David Rozenbeek