If you don’t have an Apple computer but have an iOS device, you can also do something similar with the “Shortcuts.app” + “Calendar.app”.
I have a daily shortcut that runs at X time. Shortcut checks a calendar for events, if today contains one or more events. It will parse the text from these events (comma separated fully qualified phone numbers or iMessage accounts), and send the message contained in the body of the event.
Added bonus here is that I can also send group messages.
If I need to have the message sent on repeat, then I put the cal event on repeat.
I could possibly even have templated messages (ie, insert month and year into message), but I haven’t deep dived into that rabbit hole.
Downside here though is that you need an iOS device to always be on.
Last time i checked you need to swipe to confirm every time your automation attempts to send a message? kinda kills the automation part. I was shocked that there was almost nothing to be automated with messages on IOS as third party apps can't even read or send them. The Tasker app for android is great for this kind of thing.
Although if the script has some dependency on iOS or macOS specific function (ie, existence of “Apple script”). Then the shortcut might not be portable between macOS <-> iOS
I have a daily shortcut that runs at X time. Shortcut checks a calendar for events, if today contains one or more events. It will parse the text from these events (comma separated fully qualified phone numbers or iMessage accounts), and send the message contained in the body of the event.
Added bonus here is that I can also send group messages.
If I need to have the message sent on repeat, then I put the cal event on repeat.
I could possibly even have templated messages (ie, insert month and year into message), but I haven’t deep dived into that rabbit hole.
Downside here though is that you need an iOS device to always be on.