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SerwerSMS Notifications

Overview

  1. Sign up for a SerwerSMS account at serwersms.pl.
  2. Note your login username and password from your account settings.
  3. Configure a sender name in the SerwerSMS customer panel. Sender names must be pre-approved by the carrier and are limited to 11 alphanumeric characters (e.g. MyApp).
  4. Optionally create contact groups in the panel and note their numeric group IDs.

Valid syntax is as follows:

  • serwersms://{username}:{password}@{sender}/{target_phone}
  • serwersms://{username}:{password}@{sender}/#{target_group}
  • serwersms://{username}:{password}@{sender}/{target_phone}/#{target_group}
VariableRequiredDescription
username*YesYour SerwerSMS account login username.
password*YesYour SerwerSMS account password.
sender*YesThe approved sender name shown on the recipient’s phone (up to 11 alphanumeric characters).
target_phone*NoOne or more phone numbers to deliver the SMS to. Prefix each number with + followed by the country code.
target_group*NoOne or more SerwerSMS contact group IDs. Prefix each group ID with #.
toNoA comma-separated list of phone numbers and/or group IDs. Alias for target_phone / target_group.
fromNoAlias for sender.
VariableDescription
overflowThis parameter can be set to either split, truncate, or upstream. This determines how Apprise delivers the message you pass it. By default this is set to upstream
👉 upstream: Do nothing at all; pass the message exactly as you received it to the service.
👉 truncate: Ensure that the message will fit within the service’s documented upstream message limit. If more information was passed then the defined limit, the overhead information is truncated.
👉 split: similar to truncate except if the message doesn’t fit within the service’s documented upstream message limit, it is split into smaller chunks and they are all delivered sequentially there-after.
formatThis parameter can be set to either text, html, or markdown. Some services support the ability to post content by several different means. The default of this varies (it can be one of the 3 mentioned at any time depending on which service you choose). You can optionally force this setting to stray from the defaults if you wish. If the service doesn’t support different types of transmission formats, then this field is ignored.
verifyExternal requests made to secure locations (such as through the use of https) will have certificates associated with them. By default, Apprise will verify that these certificates are valid; if they are not then no notification will be sent to the source. In some occasions, a user might not have a certificate authority to verify the key against or they trust the source; in this case you will want to set this flag to no. By default it is set to yes.
redirectBy default, Apprise will follow HTTP redirects (3xx responses) issued by the remote server, matching the behaviour of the underlying requests library. If you want to prevent custom headers and credentials from being forwarded to destinations that differ from the original URL, set this to no. By default it is set to yes.
ctoThis stands for Socket Connect Timeout. This is the number of seconds Requests will wait for your client to establish a connection to a remote machine (corresponding to the connect()) call on the socket. The default value is 4.0 seconds.
rtoThis stands for Socket Read Timeout. This is the number of seconds the client will wait for the server to send a response. The default value is 4.0 seconds.
emojisEnable Emoji support (such as providing :+1: would translate to 👍). By default this is set to no.
Note: Depending on server side settings, the administrator has the power to disable emoji support at a global level; but default this is not the case.
tzIdentify the IANA Time Zone Database you wish to operate as. By default this is detected based on the configuration the server hosting Apprise is running on. You can set this to things like America/Toronto, or any other properly formated Timezone describing your area.
retryThe number of additional delivery attempts to make after the first failure before giving up. Accepts an integer in the range 0 to 10. The default is 0 (no retries — a single attempt is made). When combined with wait, Apprise pauses the specified number of seconds between each attempt.
waitThe number of seconds to pause between retry attempts. Accepts a decimal value in the range 0.0 to 20.0; integer values are promoted to float automatically. The default is 0.5. This value is only meaningful when retry is greater than zero — a service with retry=0 makes exactly one attempt regardless of the wait value.
optionalWhen set to yes, a delivery failure for this service is silently absorbed. The overall notify() call still returns True even if this endpoint was unreachable, provided that every required (non-optional) service in the same batch succeeded. Setting this flag does not skip delivery or bypass retry logic — all configured retry attempts are still made before the failure is absorbed. By default this is set to no, meaning every failure is propagated to the caller.

Send an SMS to a single phone number:

Terminal window
# Assuming username=mylogin, password=secret, sender=MyApp
# Target phone number: +48 123 456 789
apprise -vv -t "Test Title" -b "Test Message" \
serwersms://mylogin:secret@MyApp/+48123456789

Send to multiple phone numbers:

Terminal window
apprise -vv -t "Alert" -b "Server is down" \
serwersms://mylogin:secret@MyApp/+48123456789/+48987654321

Send to a SerwerSMS contact group (group ID 100):

Terminal window
apprise -vv -t "Broadcast" -b "Maintenance tonight" \
"serwersms://mylogin:secret@MyApp/%23100"

Send to a phone number and a group in one URL:

Terminal window
apprise -vv -t "Alert" -b "Check the logs" \
"serwersms://mylogin:secret@MyApp/+48123456789/%23200"

Send an MMS with an image attachment:

Terminal window
apprise -vv -t "Alert" -b "See attached" \
--attach /path/to/image.jpg \
serwersms://mylogin:secret@MyApp/+48123456789
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