Text from Yardmaster with your Android phone
Connect an Android phone to read and send your text messages in Yardmaster, through Pushbullet or straight through your phone.
SMS brings the text messages on your Android phone into Yardmaster. New texts show up in your Inbox, and you can answer, start a new text or schedule one from your computer. It needs an Android phone; an iPhone cannot be connected.
You can connect in two ways, under SMS provider:
Pushbullet (the default): texts go through Pushbullet, an outside service, using its free Android app and your Pushbullet account.
Native (my phone): texts go straight between this computer and your phone over your Wi-Fi, using the free SMS Gateway for Android app, with no outside service.
Connect with Pushbullet#
Install Pushbullet on your Android phone and sign in.
Open Settings > Channels and expand SMS.
Turn on SMS Integration.
Under Step 1: Add your Pushbullet token, paste the API token from your Pushbullet account page (pushbullet.com/account) and click Save & Verify.
Under Step 2: Select your phone, pick your phone (it must say SMS capable) and click Save.
When it connects, the card says Connected to and your phone's name. Click SMS in the projects column to see your conversations.
Connect straight through your phone#
After turning on SMS Integration, choose Native (my phone) under SMS provider, then follow Your phone (native SMS) on the card: install SMS Gateway for Android, run it in local mode, and copy its Phone address, Username and Password into Yardmaster. Then paste Yardmaster's Inbound webhook URL into the phone app, with the same Webhook secret on both sides, and click Save. The webhook URL only appears once Mobile Access is on; see Answer your agents from your phone.
Read and send texts#
Answer a text from its conversation, in the Inbox or under SMS.
Start a new text with New SMS, or from the SMS tab of Quick Launch.
Schedule a text to go out later, once or on repeat; scheduled texts are listed under Scheduled.
Archive a conversation or mark it as spam.
Your agents can also send texts through Yardmaster's local control server, but each one waits for your approval in the Inbox first.
If SMS stops working#
When SMS is on but your phone or Pushbullet stops answering for a while, Yardmaster shows an alert in your Inbox and a notification, and clears it once SMS reconnects. Alert me when SMS goes offline turns this off.
Stop SMS#
Turning off SMS Integration hides SMS and stops it connecting the next time Yardmaster starts, but it does not close the connection that is open now. With Pushbullet, also click Disconnect on the card to close it straight away. Yardmaster keeps your saved token either way.
Names for short codes. For texts from short numbers (like the five-digit numbers that send sign-in codes), a small paid AI model guesses a friendly name from the recent texts, up to $0.10 a day. Change the limit with AI name inference daily cost cap (USD).
GIFs. The GIF button needs your own free Klipy key, added under GIF search key (Klipy).
Favorites. SMS Favorites pins the people you text most in the Quick Launch SMS tab.
Notifications. Incoming SMS notifications in Settings > Notifications turns off the sound and pop-up for new texts.
Related
- Put Yardmaster on your phoneOpen Yardmaster on your phone with a QR code, then add it to your home screen so it opens like an app.
- Send a shareSend a share link by Gmail, SMS or Slack from the detail pane, and see the preview card a link shows when you paste it into a chat app.
- Answer your agents from your phoneOpen Yardmaster on your phone, on your Wi-Fi or from anywhere, and see who is connected.