Looking for a better SMS system.

butter@midwest.social to Selfhosted@lemmy.world – 28 points –

I'm very tired of SMS being horrible and necessary. Matrix has a bridge for SMS, but it doesn't work very well. There's other SMS bridges, no idea how well they work.

Does anyone have a good solution for dealing with SMS?

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Have you tried the new SMS bridge that relies on gmessages?

https://github.com/mautrix/gmessages

If you have an Android phone you can use the Google SMS app:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.apps.messaging

Then you pair the app and bridge. It's been pretty reliable since I started using this bridge, especially when compared to the previous bridge options.

Ooooo. No I haven't. Is it faster than the old bridge?

I don't know how slow the old one was, but if I send myself an SMS using the bridge it completes a round trip to the Telco and back in about 1 second