email setup/alerts..?

GarrickG

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Hi Rob,
I'm having trouble getting this to work... So far I've:
  • Created a throw-away gmail account & tested it...
  • Enabled email in robo-tank settings
  • Entered my throw-away gmail in the "from email..."
  • Carefully entered the password for this email
  • Entered a couple of my personal emails addressed for the "recipients..."
When I click send test email is reads "email sent", but then I'm not receiving anything. I imagine they're not getting out of the raspberry pi or maybe not getting past my router but I'm not sure how to go about problem solving this? (I'm at the novice level with the pi and router settings...) Thanks
 
Hi Rob,
I'm having trouble getting this to work... So far I've:
  • Created a throw-away gmail account & tested it...
  • Enabled email in robo-tank settings
  • Entered my throw-away gmail in the "from email..."
  • Carefully entered the password for this email
  • Entered a couple of my personal emails addressed for the "recipients..."
When I click send test email is reads "email sent", but then I'm not receiving anything. I imagine they're not getting out of the raspberry pi or maybe not getting past my router but I'm not sure how to go about problem solving this? (I'm at the novice level with the pi and router settings...) Thanks
Hi @GarrickG unfortunately it looks like gmail stopped supporting 3rd party apps using just username and password to log in. They used to have a "Less Secure App Access" option you could turn on but I've just looked for it and they've removed it. I'll see if I can find another method to use gmail.

Outlook emails work, I'm using mine to send alerts. Maybe setup one of those for now.
 
Hey Rob, I've tried my hotmail email but didn't get the test email. I rebooted the system after entering my email and password. Can the "From" email and "to" emails be the same?
That's a surprise as I assume this is the email address you use in reef-pi? The from and to addresses can be the same, I will email you another address to try for the "from" to see if this works. It might be something with hotmail not allowing 3rd party apps but if it works with reef-pi it should work here as well. Did you look in the spam or junk folder to see if it went there?

What did you use for SMTP Server and SMTP Port?
 
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I will email you another address to try for the "from" to see if this works
This worked great. Thanks!

The hotmail address I was using is the same one I was using with reefpi which was working the day before I switched over to Robotank. I did check my junk folder but I'm not sure what was being used for the SMTP server/port.
 
This worked great. Thanks!

The hotmail address I was using is the same one I was using with reefpi which was working the day before I switched over to Robotank. I did check my junk folder but I'm not sure what was being used for the SMTP server/port.
Glad that worked. If you are up to it try the following using your hotmail account.

Go to email settings and leave it on the "other" option and change SMTP Server to smtp.office365.com Put your hotmail address in the From field and update the password. Reboot controller and see if you can send a test email.

If this fails try changing the SMTP Server to smtp.live.com Update the password, reboot and try a test email again.

If this fails go back to the email I sent you. :)
 
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