Using an RV50 for SMS with an Ignition instance hosted in the cloud

Ignition
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I have been trying to configure an RV50 to act as the SMS gateway for my Ignition instance. Despite following a well documented guide
and confirming that the device can send SMS on its own, I am unable to get the Ignition to RV50 communication to work.

I believe the issue lies in a potential requirement of having the RV50 and Ignition on a LAN. My instance of Ignition is hosted in AWS and has no physical ethernet I could connect the RV50 too.

This may take network engineering above my skill level but I wanted to see if anyone has had similar issues or solutions.

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I don't want this to discourage anyone from helping you duct tape together a solution, but...

if you are hosting Ignition in AWS why in the world aren't you using the Twilio module for SMS instead?

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I think ultimately Twilio will be the solution we go with. The initial module selection was not decided by the current team haha.
Also our company has easy access to RV50's and Cellular plans. So if I can get this working without purchasing a new module I would like too.

Its possible to use scripting to send direct messages from the RV50 over SSH but I would prefer if we can find a way to configure it through the tools that exist.

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I think you'd have to run a site-to-site VPN indefinitely, and make sure UDP traffic on the ports used by the RV50 for SMS is allowed to/from the right hosts/IPs on each side.

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We are using an OpenVPN Client on the Ignition server I wonder If I can leverage that to attempt this solution. I appreciate the feedback and I will post my results!