 Hello, this is going to be a quick video. I'm just going to prep you for the next video, talking about something, a concept, something that I do quite often. And people ask me how I do it. And that's sending text messages to my phone from my computer, which is actually easier than you think. Now, obviously, you can buy devices that actually connect to cellular towers. And you have an account. And you can send messages. That's a very efficient way to do it. But there is a quick and dirty freeway to do it that works with most carriers. I have an example here of just a few main carriers. And that is to send a text through email. And it's very simple. If you can send an email, you can send a text to most phones. The thing you need to know is what the phone number is and who their provider is. That's one of the benefits of having a device that can send texts, such as a phone, which maybe I should do a tutorial on sending a text from your computer through your phone some other time. But sending it from your computer through email, you need to know who their provider is. For example, if they're T-Mobile, you have to know that they're T-Mobile because you have to give it at t-m-o-mail.net. So the way this works is you have their 10-digit phone number, you put their 10-digit phone number, no space or anything, just the numbers, at, and then whatever the ending is here. And this is just a few examples. If you Google email to SMS or email to text, you can get fuller lists. This is just a quick one I grab. So if they're on all tells, all tells still a thing, let's say AT&T, you'll do their phone number again, only numbers, the full 10 numbers, no spaces, at txt.att.net. And there's also some of these providers allow not just SMS, but MMS. And the ending might be the same, might be different. I don't even bother with that if I need to send a picture or something. I usually just send a link. I'm not going to try to attach an image this way. It just seems like it'd be a pain in the butt. Sending images through regular text can be a pain in the butt still in 2018. For example, if they were with Verizon, it'd be their phone number at vtext.com. I use Google Fi. And I don't have it on the list here. I believe it's your number at fifi.google.com. I believe is what it is. There's something along those lines. I don't actually look at that in the next video, I send messages to my phone all the time. Drawbacks of this is you have to know what carrier they are on. Where again, if you have a cell phone or some sort of cellular device that you can send text messages to, you just need to know the phone number and the cell company figures that all out somehow, I guess. Because it's saying it's a number where this is, you're basically sending an email to, in this case, AT&T's email server. And then they're forwarding it to the phone as a text. And it comes through as a text. Another thing is I, and give me a hard time about this, it's one of the few proprietary applications that I have in my life that I feel I can't find any alternative to. And I know there's other ones out there that they really don't have the functionality of this is Hangouts. Google Hangouts is what I use for my texting. It allows me to text not only from my phone, but from my computer and tablet all at the same time and not just chat with other people on Hangouts but send actual texts. And my texts come into there, which is nice because they pop up on my desktop as messages and then I can respond from there. But when I send myself a text this way, where I put in my phone number at phy.google.com or whatever it is, it actually comes to my phone, but not through Google Hangouts. It goes straight to the default text message application on my phone. So that's the only time I ever use that application is when I send myself a text this way. And in that case, it doesn't go to my other devices. It only goes to my phone. But in most people, that's not gonna be an issue. It's gonna go to whatever application they use in most cases. So the biggest drawback is you have to know the person's carrier and the extension for that. But that's pretty much it. So example, if you were to email, let's say my number was 555-555-5555. And I use Ryzen, it would be at vtext.com. I would send a text that, and you can do it from Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail, I'm just saying email clients. But if you have your own server, you can send text that way. Setting up your own mail server is commonly frowned upon because there's lots of problems. Trust me, I've been through those headaches. But even if you use another mail service, if you have a web server and your own domain, you can send emails from your server. A lot of email clients will block them in many cases if your server isn't well known or put in a spam. But I haven't really had that issue with this. These techniques, these email and these addresses, at least for me, seem to go through. Although if someone starts abusing it, maybe they will be blocked. But you should be able to set it on your system to not be blocked, I guess. But this is very, very useful to have automated scripts text you. This is how my doorbell works. I have an ESP8266 chip hooked to my doorbell. It sends an HTTP request to my desktop, which sends an HTTP request to my web server. And my web server sends an email to both my phone and my wife's phone using our phone numbers and our Google Fi addresses. But sending it as an email, but it comes in as a text. Very useful. And in the next video, I'm gonna go over this a little more in detail. Talking, I'll show you a quick script on sending emails from your web server, which may vary depending on your setup, but it's just gonna be a basic idea, concept, and how this is very useful. It's also very useful. I have when a user logs into my computer, I automatically get a text. So I know when my servers are being accessed, if someone accesses my server, I get an email notification along with their IP address. It's in the time they were logged in, which automatically is attached when you get a text at the time. So it can be very useful. And again, it's on average, and I do this often. It takes anywhere from five to 10 seconds from the message being sent to it again to your phone. So it's not instantaneous, but it's good enough for everything I do. So I hope you watch the next video where I go into this a little more detail on how it could be used. So I thank you for watching. Please visit FilmsByChris.com. That's Chris of the K. There's a link in the description as well as a link to my Patreon account. Think about supporting me. I appreciate it. And I hope that you have a great day.