As part of my job I have to show up and help students who are having trouble using HHP sim’s educational ‘stuff’. I have ‘help poles’ students can touch to ‘summon’ me. When I’m not actually signed on to Second Life, ‘summoned’ has meant ‘emailed’, which sometimes doesn’t work – I often don’t notice that the email came in until too late.
A low priority project for me has been improving this so it SMS texts me.
I’ve gone through a rather long cycle of being offered one and another API’s to do this, and each time installing and understanding the API has been enough of a barrier that the job didn’t get done.
FINALLY, somebody pointed out that sending SMTP email (that’s ordinary email) to >phone number<@>cell company specific addy< works.
If you need to ring an SMS phone, here’s the link
Yes, this is the way an api should be – it’s deadly simple and it works. I’m sure there’s lots of cool functionality I’m not seeing. Wonderful!! Cool! I DONT want to see that stuff. I just want to ring my phone.
