Package: notify-mi
Notify Mi🔔 Notify Mi simplifies sending yourself text and email notifications from your personal projects by utilizing your gmail account. It is a convenient and cost-effective solution with the goal of providing you aneasyandfreeway to send messages in response to events.Notify Mi is particularly useful when working with IoT devices. It can allow you to receive messages in response to events such as when a sensor value reaches a certain threshold, when a sensor detects something, when a sensor encounters an error, or when a daily or custom timed event occurs. This makes it easy to keep track of what is happening with your IoT device and react to any change or issue that may arise.With Notify Mi, you can alsoattach a filewith your text or email message. The maximum file size allowed is 1 MB and you can use any of the 69 supportedfile types, thus providing you flexibility in the type of attachment you want to include in your messages.Table of ContentsPurposeGetting StartedUsageSpecial ThanksPurpose:Sending notifications through your Gmail account is not a novel idea. Notify Mi is designed to be amodularandreliableway to send notifications without having to spend time and effort figuring out how to do it each time you want to add this feature to your project. Plus, the implementation process should be straightforward andtake only a couple minutes. This way, you can focus on other aspects of your project and save time.Getting Started:Generate an app password for your gmail account by clickinghere.place your gmail address and app password in a tuple like so → ("gmail_address", "app_password")(optional) step by stepguideon how to generate an app passwordInstall Notify Mi# 2. install notify_mi using pippipinstallnotify_mi# ✔️ That's it, now you are ready to useUsage:Importfromnotify_miimportnotifyText messsage Only# send only a text message# include phone_number and phone_provider (see providers list below)# phone number: "(619) 123-4567", "619-123-4567", or "6191234567" (all acceptable)notify.send_message("Hello World!",("gmail","password"),phone_number="your_number",phone_provider="your_phone_provider")Text + Email# send text message + email# include phone_number, phone_provider (see providers list below), and receiver email# phone number: "(619) 123-4567", "619-123-4567", or "6191234567" (all acceptable)notify.send_message("Hello World!",("gmail","password"),phone_number="your_number",phone_provider="your_phone_provider",send_to="email@gmail.com")Email Only# send only email# include receiver emailnotify.send_message("Hello World!",("gmail","password"),send_to="email@gmail.com")Other Parameters# add a subject line to the messagenotify.send_message(subject="EMERGENCY",message="No sweets detected in fridge!")# add a file attachment (69 file types supported)notify.send_message(subject="I found it",message="My dream car",file_attachment="/path/car.png")# run without blocking main threadnotify.send_message("Hello World!",threaded=True)# you can re-order any of the parametersnotify.send_message(threaded=True,file_attachment="/path/to/file"phone_number="your_number",phone_provider="your_phone_provider",send_to="email@gmail.com",sender_credentials=("gmail","password"),message="No sweets detected in fridge!")List of Phone Providers# Select From:"AT&T","Boost Mobile","C-Spire","Cricket Wireless","Consumer Cellular","Google Project Fi","Metro PCS","Mint Mobile","Page Plus","Republic Wireless","Sprint","Straight Talk","T-Mobile","Ting","Tracfone","U.S. Cellular","Verizon","Virgin Mobile",and"Xfinity Mobile"Special Thanks:Alfredo Sequeidafor writing a detailedarticleand for making a greatvideothat went step by step on how to send text messages using python. It was very useful for one of my projects so I am adding to what he did so that other people can find it useful.Alfredo also made a package namedetextso check that out!