[Ignition 8.1.5]
I’m using an Airlink RV50x for SMS alarm notification. Looks like my messages get automatically split to stay under the 160 character limit of SMS. I know longer messages are possible, and a quick search tells me that’s because of SMS concatenation.
Is it possible to enable concatenation? I don’t see how this would happen on the Ignition side without a new configuration option, but perhaps it’s possible on the RV50x side?
Hi, I know this was 5 years ago, but did you solve it? I am currently facing the same issue.
Regards!
Is this not a limitation imposed by the carrier? a 160-character per SMS limit has always been there for SMS’ sent via standard mobile carrier services.
I might be remembering wrong, but I remember longer alarm messages are just automatically – by the carrier – split into multiple messages. There’s nothing you can do about it. I’m not sure if this is the “issue” you’re talking about, or if you’re talking about something else?
Many years ago, I also remember that when you exceeded 160 characters, the message count would increase—from 1/3, then 2/3, and finally 3/3; back then, that was the limit. And you paid for an extra message every time. As you rightly said, the limit is likely on the single message itself.
you solve it by using the twilio module. sms is no longer a reliable method of notification as the carriers are looking to control spam messages and also probably make money from commercial text messages.
I don’t recall specifics about my question, but I can only assume I wanted longer SMS notifications to appear like the image on the right:
It’s still 3 separate texts, but some additional metadata and SMS magic tells the phone to display them as a single longer message. No clue if this process is handled by the carrier or the originating device, though (the RV50x in my case)
