Send email or other method

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Hi All,

Been trying to send a couple of bits of data, once a day, to someone who lives in my house for them to create a spreadsheet. Tried the email node with my hotmail account but no joy and I have since read a bit about setting it all up and it would seem to be quite complicated.
Seeing as the person who will receive the messages is in the same house, maybe email is overkill anyway and maybe another node would be more suitable and above all, easier to configure.

Any ideas ?

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Ah. There's the problem, in a nutshell.

Set up a gmail account.
Use 2FA.
Create an app password.

There are full write-ups in the forum on sending via gmail

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Better than email would be a comms tool like Telegram. There are others of course such as WhatsApp and Signal but Telegram is really the easiest to get going with and there is a decent contributed set of nodes.

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It doesn't surprise me that hotmail is a problem. I will try telegram etc then.

Thanks for your replies.

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I don't know whether this would be of interest to you, but I use Google Forms and Sheets for entering and storing data in the cloud from a Node Red application using a node red http request node. So using this method the data can go directly into a spreadsheet for others to access. Probably overkill for your purposes, but maybe not. Google Sheets example

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That's interesting, I will look into that as the person who will be processing the data uses google sheets.

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So, if they are already using Google Sheets for the analysis then, as I've described in the link to my notes for my Node Red application, they should be able to set up a Form linked to a Sheet for your data and provide you with the URL for direct input.

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I've given them your link so I'm waiting for them to get started. I will see if they can send me a URL.

Thanks,

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Incidentally my Node Red application also uses emails to send me notifications. I use a Gmail account dedicated to that Node Red Application to send emails to my hotmail account using node-red-node-email

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I was hoping to personally avoid setting up anything with google.

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Hopefully, you won't need to if you are passed a URL for the Sheets, but thought I would just show you that the setup for using the email node was straightforward.