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I tried to do this a few years ago and realized there is no reliable way to send myself an SMS without paying a not insignificant monthly fee somewhere. To the point where I might as well just pay for a service that already exists that does this and a lot more.
Having explored Twillio for text messaging recently, turns out it’s getting very hard to be able to send them programmatically in the US due to lengthy A2P registration process. I understand in spirit this aims to reduce text spam, but my feeling is this becoming another money making opportunity for carriers. https://www.twilio.com/docs/flex/admin-guide/setup/conversat...
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Most of the time it’s a solution looking for a problem with these recreational programming writeups, and that’s perfectly fine. I also wrote a script that downloads my mum’s favorite series from public broadcasters, puts them in Plex and sends her a text message. Is it necessary? No, but it was fun.
It's fine, but it's also good to be honest with yourself and your readers.
I tried to do this a few years ago and realized there is no reliable way to send myself an SMS without paying a not insignificant monthly fee somewhere. To the point where I might as well just pay for a service that already exists that does this and a lot more.
The big difference is it also tells me if it’s going to be colder/warmer than yesterday.
That just helps me immediately know what to wear as I stumble through my morning.
OP appears to be using an iOS device, so I was curious to see if this could be replicated using Shortcuts and Automations. It can! And you can send yourself an SMS, or, as I've done in this example, send a notification, which will persist in Notification Center, if you wish. https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/8cda97aa69174e44b434c3dba7a...
Might be a weird question but, what value do people get from knowing the current weather? I understand the value in forecasts of course, but doesn't "feeling" the current weather serve most practical purposes?
Have you tried push notifications through a PWA? Not sure it works but could skip the need for Twilio & £20 budget! https://push.foo/
Pushover is $7 one-time, you can push notifications via a simple api. Having a machine hosted on, say, fly.io waking up once a day, fetching open meteo data and pushing via the pushover api would effectively cost $0/month.