Simple Raspberry Pi Powered SMS Gateway

Post by actually_a_dog » Sun, Dec 05, 2021, 9:06 PM UTC

dspillett wrote: post #49

jll29 wrote: post #13

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> The biggest challenge with the whole setup was finding a SIM from a provider who would let me top it up once per year and maybe send half a dozen texts in that time without deactivating the SIM, for a reasonable price Good point - so-called "pre-paid" SIMs seem to be hidden subscriptions nowadays. Does anyone have a table of suitable low-usage, long-term SIM vendors?

You might want to say what location you are in for a truly useful answer. In the UK at least most providers keep the SIM active if it sees some activity in a given space of time¹ irrespective of top-up activity². So if “low” use stretches as far as one text every month or two maybe just have it send an “I'm still here” message regularly. Also acts as a double-check that not getting alerts means all is OK instead of t…

Post by actually_a_dog » Sun, Dec 05, 2021, 9:23 PM UTC

bitxbitxbitcoin wrote: post #40

geek_at wrote: post #34

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Hey DeathArrow. Very very strange I'm the author of the article and I created this post and got the first few comments then when I reloaded the page it says you posted it and I can't upvote the post like it was my own. What gives? Do you work for ycombinator or somehing? Or did you post it shortly before me and the mods combined our posts and attributed it to you?

Mods combining posts and choosing the wrong winner sounds most plausible. Just email them and they'll make the correction because they do a dang good job.

Post by psanford » Sun, Dec 05, 2021, 10:51 PM UTC

daneel_w wrote: post #16

allisfalafel wrote: post #3

I'd love to get a setup like this with voice calls also supported. I'd like to be able to recieve my calls and texts on any device as I can with email/irc/matrix etc

If you don't absolutely need this to originate from a mobile subscription with your name on it, you can for far less money get a DID ("direct inwards dial"; the term colloquially means a virtual mobile number) with any of the numerous VoIP providers out there. Most of them not only provide in- and outbound calls on those DIDs, but also ditto for SMSes. The interface for voice calls is almost exclusively SIP, and for…

Post by tiernano » Sun, Dec 05, 2021, 11:03 PM UTC

Post by slicktux » Sun, Dec 05, 2021, 11:30 PM UTC

zamadatix wrote: post #48

slicktux wrote: post #41

I’d be curious to know what carriers I could use with the dongle here in the USA..? I’ve been trying to make an IoT project and being that T-Mobile is shutting down their 3G GSM there’s only a few IoT devices that are licensed and approved for use with Verizon and AT&T for the 4G band. :/

Shouldn't be anything special to what you were doing with 3G, there are dozens of cheap 4G dongles or hat and certification isn't really any more special (heck Verizon even recommends and shows how to set up and configure a particular $30 5G/4G modem they connect to a Pi in their ThingSpace tutorial). As far as plans every major carrier has 4G IoT plans, prepaid or not depending on what you want. Also look into place…