I participated in the ArborHacks hackathon in Ann Arbor this weekend and met people from Cisco who were showing how to use Tropo to easily send text messages. The service can also make and receive voice phone calls.
If you’re interested in adding SMS in your next project read my tutorial on how to hook things up with your Photon or Electron.
I feel that the integration is now more straightforward to set up than when @harrisonhjones wrote his tutorial so if you’ve tried Tropo in the past and had issues give it a shot again.
Yes Tropo can receive text messages and works with voice calls too. If you can figure out the sequence for receiving an SMS, you can either write a tutorial or send me the steps with screenshots and I’ll add it to the same tutorial with proper attribution.
I think the easiest way would be to make a single Partcle API call from the Tropo script to publish an event and subscribe to it in firmware. You’ll need to figure out how to make a REST call within a Tropo script and publish a private event as described in https://docs.particle.io/reference/api/#publish-an-event Don’t bother trying to include the entire Particle JS client in there.
