Support Twilio Webhooks?

[legrego]

Currently, this plugin polls the Twilio API every X seconds to see if any messages have been received. Twilio supports webhooks that can notify consumers of messages without the need for polling.

Benefits

• More immediate feedback of incoming messages. This would allow triggers to fire faster
• The plugin can respond to the webhook with a TwMl response, which would allow us to reply to the recipient.

Drawbacks

• Requires HomeSeer to be publicly accessible -- Twilio needs to make an HTTP(s) call into HomeSeer to notify us of the incoming message. This potentially requires networking configuration on the end-users part, which isn't very friendly. UPnP is an option, but not something I want to explore for this plugin...it's too much of a security hazard.

[MattL0]

Not possible via myhs? I know phlocation does it with apple.

And Simplextechnologie have a plugin named ''MyHSToken'' in the beta section. if Twillo need a real domain adress...maybe we can give them the my hs adres with a token created by MyHSToken.
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Here is the forum for MyHSToken: https://forums.homeseer.com/forum/3rd-party-developer-area/general-developer-discussion/simplex-technology/1304696-beta-release-myhstoken

[legrego]

@MattL0 that's an interesting thought. I don't personally use myhs, so I hadn't considered that as an option. Would you be willing to test a beta version against myhs if I work on this?

[MattL0]

yes !

[mrizzo123]

I would also like this feature and would help test.

[legrego]

@mrizzo123 do you also use the "my homeseer" feature for remote access to your setup?

[mrizzo123]

@mrizzo123 do you also use the "my homeseer" feature for remote access to your setup?

Yes, I use "my homeseer", however, I am sophisticated enough to handle an inbound NAT for a webhook if you want to start testing or implementing that way first.

[snakeeyes5]

Curious if this is still in the works? I would be willing to test also, and also wondering what your HS4 plans are at them moment?

[legrego]

This is something I'm still interested in tackling, I just haven't had the time to dedicate to this feature.

Same goes for HS4 support -- I bought an HS4 license, but I haven't provisioned an instance yet to see what would be involved to migrate this over.

[MattL0]

I dropped myhs altogether . I use a hue emulator to control my devices ''locally'' . And an alexa package on nodered to control scenes.

I would need to implement something to test with webhook. I just need to read a couple of how too lol.

edit , also an hs4 user here.