Keeping tabs on my standby generator with Raspberry Pi (Part IV)

This post will be short, it will deal with sending out an SMS and email at the same time.

If you are a subscriber to Gmail, and who isn’t, it is a relatively simple matter to send out SMSs and emails at the same time using Python.

This is a snippet from my calling application:

   1: #!/usr/bin/env python

   2:  

   3: import sendsms2

   4:  

   5: cMessage = "Test message"

   6: cSMSRecipient = "5195551234"

   7: cEmailRecipient = "recipientname@recipientisp.com"

   8: carrier = "yourcarrier.com"

   9: cSMSSent = sendsms2.sms("SMS",cMessage,cSMSRecipient,carrier)     

  10:     if (cSMSSent[:7] != "Problem"): 

  11:         sendsms2.sms("EMAIL",cMessage,cEmailRecipient,"")

  12:     else:

  13:         print "Unable to send message. The sendsms module reports: + cSMSSent

and this is the module that is being called:

   1: #!/usr/bin/env python

   2:  

   3: import smtplib

   4: import sys

   5:  

   6: def sms(messagetype,message,recipient,carrier):

   7:     """Login and attempt to send message"""

   8:     mailserver = smtplib.SMTP('smtp.gmail.com')

   9:     print mailserver.ehlo()

  10:     print mailserver.starttls()

  11:     print mailserver.ehlo()

  12:     user = 'yourname@gmail.com'

  13:     passw = 'yourpassword'

  14:     try:

  15:         mailserver.login(user, passw)

  16:     except smtplib.SMTPException:

  17:         print 'Problem logging in'

  18:         sys.exit(1)

  19:         

  20:     if (messagetype == "EMAIL"):

  21:         headers = ["From: yourname@gmail.com","Subject: Test","To:" + recipient ,"Mime-Version: 1.0","Content-Type: text/html"]

  22:         headers = "\r\n".join(headers)

  23:         message = headers + "\r\n\r\n" + message + '\nSent from my Raspberry Pi'

  24:     else:

  25:         recipient = recipient + '@' + carrier

  26:     

  27:     print 'Sending...\n'

  28:     try:

  29:         mailserver.sendmail(user,recipient,message)

  30:     except smtplib.SMTPException:

  31:         return 'Problem could not send message'    

  32:     else:

  33:         return 'Message sent'

  34:     mailserver.quit()

  35:     

  36:     

  37: if __name__=="__main__":

  38:     

  39:     sms(user, passw)

That’s it! As usual with software, you can expand it forever, but for now, this will have to do.