Possible to get SMS/text message notification when process ends or is killed?

Question

There are scripts that will send an e-mail when a server process is finished.

However, I do not want to check my email every so often just to see whether a job has finished. Therefore I'd like to get an SMS message.

My question is similar to this one, just exchange SMS with all occurrences of "e-mail": Is there a program that can send me a notification e-mail when a process finishes?

Can you think of any workaround / app / script / whatever that would enable an SMS to be sent when a job is finished (or prematurely ended?)

http://serverfault.com/search?q=SMS+notification – Deer Hunter Jul 13 '13 at 22:17 — Deer Hunter, Jul 13 '13 at 22:17
Today, IFTTT would be another option. – Oct 28 '14 at 18:16 — , Oct 28 '14 at 18:16

score 12 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 13 '13 at 16:33

There are 3 ways to accomplish the sending of an SMS message from a server and/or application.

Setup your own gateway

If you google for "sms gateway" you'll find a large list of applications that you can setup which will provide this capability. You can also take an old cell phone and a PC and set them up using this tutorial titled: Setting up an SMS Gateway to create your own SMS gateway.
Use a ready made service

There are service providers that offer this capability (typically for a fee). Here are a couple of them:
fee
- http://www.esendex.co.uk/
- http://www.twilio.com/
free
- http://www.kannel.org/
These providers often provide a library and/or API, such as this one from twilio, so that you can integrate them more easily into your application if needed.
Send an email to your provider's SMS gateway

Most providers (Verizon, AT&T, etc.) provide the ability to send an SMS message to your phone using the <phonenumber>@provider.com. Wikipedia also has a pretty exhaustive list of SMS gateways.

Accepting this even though it does not provide a cut and paste answer since it seems to be a moderately involved process. Thanks, btw. — The Unfun Cat, Jul 13 '13 at 16:38
@TheUnfunCat - yes there are a lot of choices so it'd be difficult to give you just a single solution. — slm, Jul 13 '13 at 16:40

score 4 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 13 '13 at 16:46

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Another option if you have an android phone: use NotifyMyAndroid to send push messages to your phone.

answered Jul 13 '13 at 16:46

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score 3 · Answer 3 · answered Sep 01 '13 at 05:03

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Take a look at gcsms if you have a Google account. It's sort of a hack that uses Google's calendar event notification to send free SMS to your phone right from the shell. You can even send SMS to multiple people provided they've set up their settings properly.

By the way, I am the creator of gcsms.

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Google is discontinuing the SMS notifications – dbza Jul 08 '15 at 18:55
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@dbza but only for free gmail accounts. If you have Google for Work account, it'll continue to work. – Mansour Jul 08 '15 at 22:51
cool I didn't know that – dbza Jul 13 '15 at 01:40

score 1 · Answer 4 · edited Oct 20 '17 at 18:39

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#!/bin/bash
# this will send an sms message
# usage: script.name "message you want to send"

echo -e "ATZ\r" >/dev/ttyACM0
echo -e "AT+CMGF=1\r" >/dev/ttyACM0
echo -e "AT+CMGS=\"1234567890\"\r" >/dev/ttyACM0 
echo -e "$1\x1A" >/dev/ttyACM0

edited Oct 20 '17 at 18:39

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score 0 · Answer 5 · answered Oct 02 '19 at 11:46

I also wanted something for notifying me after training ML models has completed and made a free light service for this purpose.

https://getvigil.io

Just set up your email or phone number, download the binary for your platform, write the config file with your creds and run:

vigil echo "hello world"

Also plan to expand to push notifications and watching command output/notifying based on match rules.

score 0 · Answer 6 · answered Sep 14 '20 at 18:29

I run into this issue a lot, not only with shell commands but anywhere else I need a notification when some process finishes. I found this site that gives you a URL, that when hit, sends you a text message. So you can run your command as such <some command> && curl <url> and you'll get a text when it finishes. Its at https://www.comunicake.com

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