# Notifications to smart devices

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/notifications-to-smart-devices/52682>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Tags:** ignition80\
**Created:** [November 3, 2021, 3:30pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/notifications-to-smart-devices/52682 "2021-11-03T15:30:41Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![antonio.sanchez](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a587f6/32.png) [@antonio.sanchez](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/antonio.sanchez)\
**Post date:** [November 3, 2021, 3:30pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/notifications-to-smart-devices/52682/1 "2021-11-03T15:30:41Z")

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hello to all

I have a question regarding smart device notifications.

To make some kind of notification to my equipment, is a license required and what license would it be?

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**Author:** ![Kevin.Herron](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/kevin.herron/32/7259_2.png) [@Kevin.Herron](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Kevin.Herron)\
**Post date:** [November 3, 2021, 4:29pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/notifications-to-smart-devices/52682/2 "2021-11-03T16:29:40Z")

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Can you go into more detail about what “smart device notifications” means?

Are you trying to send push notifications to cell phones? SMS? Something else entirely?

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**Author:** ![antonio.sanchez](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a587f6/32.png) [@antonio.sanchez](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/antonio.sanchez)\
**Post date:** [November 3, 2021, 5:19pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/notifications-to-smart-devices/52682/3 "2021-11-03T17:19:32Z")

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whether to send notifications via SMS or by any application

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**Author:** ![bkarabinchak.psi](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/bkarabinchak.psi/32/83567_2.png) [@bkarabinchak.psi](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/bkarabinchak.psi)\
**Post date:** [November 3, 2021, 5:24pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/notifications-to-smart-devices/52682/4 "2021-11-03T17:24:09Z")

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SMS there is a module for -  
[https://inductiveautomation.com/ignition/modules/sms-notification](https://inductiveautomation.com/ignition/modules/sms-notification)

I think it uses twilio which is widely used for SMS.

If you mean a notification on your phone like you would get from say an installed instagram app “Someone like your post” - this I don’t think is currently possible but I would like to be proven wrong.

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**Author:** ![paul-griffith](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/paul-griffith/32/37249_2.png) [@paul-griffith](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/paul-griffith)\
**Post date:** [November 3, 2021, 5:39pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/notifications-to-smart-devices/52682/5 "2021-11-03T17:39:49Z")

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> [@bkarabinchak.psi](#):
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> I think it uses twilio which is widely used for SMS.

There's two distinct modules; the SMS module requires a specific Airlink modem to make a direct SMS notification, and then the Twilio module just calls out to Twilio's API and lets them handle the details.

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**Author:** ![JordanCClark](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/jordancclark/32/83362_2.png) [@JordanCClark](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/JordanCClark)\
**Post date:** [November 3, 2021, 8:28pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/notifications-to-smart-devices/52682/6 "2021-11-03T20:28:10Z")

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[Pushover](https://pushover.net/) may be an option