balenaLocating send notifications via email and sms

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Hello again, Im Using the Balena Locating Project and I’m trying to send notifications via E-mail and SMS when a tag is not in range of the raspberry pi. I do not know where to modify or how to modify the program or if there is an option to just add it.

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Hey again,

Notifications are not something balenaLocating does at the moment.

If you wanted to try and add alerting yourself, I think you have 2 options:

  1. Use the alerting functionality of Influx Cloud.
  2. Add custom code to the dashboard service of balenaLocating

Option 1 will not need any code writing. I’ve not tried it myself, but a quick glance at that blog post I linked makes it look simple enough.

For option 2, since the dashboard service is written in .NET C#, I would probably use something like SendGrid. If you do attempt this, let me know. It is probably functionality other people would enjoy. :slight_smile:

Phil