Texting myself the weather every day
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Texting myself the weather every day
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Re: Texting myself the weather every day
#2this might come in handy for dumb phone users
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#31st version: relies on one single third-party service
Preamble to the 2nd version: This is something I should be able to code and host myself, without relying on a third-party
2nd and thus far final version: relies on three third-party services
Re: Texting myself the weather every day
#4I'd write the message even shorter, (and without emoji's) more like: "Cloudy - 25°C - 15% rain - 6 UV". And for even less effort, send it not as SMS but a persistant notification that you can swipe/tap away.
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#51st version: relies on one single third-party service Preamble to the 2nd version: This is something I should be able to code and host myself, without relying on a third-party 2nd and thus far final version: relies on three third-party services
That made me laugh. Github actions was just running Cron so that one could easily be self hosted.
Re: Texting myself the weather every day
#6Have you tried push notifications through a PWA? Not sure it works but could skip the need for Twilio & £20 budget!
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#7Cool, however “ Opening the Weather app every morning is too much effort” - is it really? And even if it was, don't most mobile OSes support having a Lock Screen weather widget you can check at a glance?
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#8Have 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.
Re: Texting myself the weather every day
#9many mobile carriers allow sending texts via email (for example: 3048675309@vtext.com with a verizon number), which might be worth looking into should you want to avoid twilio completely.
Re: Texting myself the weather every day
#10OP 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...