Apex Ending Text Messaging Support

[n2585722]

I switched to using email alerts a while ago since I was already checking my inbox all the time anyway, and it's been working just fine for me.

This was from back in 2022 and I think all controller companies had the same issue with this. It was a cost issue to send text from business accounts that prompted it. Since all the text would originate from the same address and the amount of them would exceed the limit they were going to have to pay to send those text if they continued to do it. So most of them switched to push notifications for alerts instead. Most will still send emails if you prefer those.

 

[ShadowTrove]

Yeah, that makes sense — the shift away from text messaging probably saved a lot of companies from those extra carrier costs. I still kind of miss the immediacy of SMS alerts though; email works fine, but it’s not quite the same when you need to be woken up at 3 a.m. for a tank issue. I’ve been thinking of adding a fallback to push notifications through something like Pushover or Telegram’s bot API, just in case the SMS gateway ever goes down again — both seem way more reliable long term.

 

[n2585722]

Yeah, that makes sense — the shift away from text messaging probably saved a lot of companies from those extra carrier costs. I still kind of miss the immediacy of SMS alerts though; email works fine, but it’s not quite the same when you need to be woken up at 3 a.m. for a tank issue. I’ve been thinking of adding a fallback to push notifications through something like Pushover or Telegram’s bot API, just in case the SMS gateway ever goes down again — both seem way more reliable long term.

Apex will not do push notifications?