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Tangentially related: I set up a security camera based on Raspberry Pi in an area with no wifi. It sends notifications and pictures to my phone when any motion
by bityard 5y ago
Tangentially related: I set up a security camera based on Raspberry Pi in an area with no wifi. It sends notifications and pictures to my phone when any motion is detected. From T-Mobile, the hotspot was free and the data plan is $5 a month. The data plan only has a few hundred meg of "fast" data but unlimited 128k/sec after that. Which is perfectly fine since the images it sends are usually around 100k each. It's been working great for months.
A rare trifecta of cheap, easy, and good. (Although it did take a weekend to build and test.)
- walterbell 5y agoThanks for the pointer, could you share a link or search term for this plan?
- myelin 5y agoI see the $5/month plan here: https://www.t-mobile.com/cell-phone-plans/affordable-data-plans https://www.t-mobile.com/cell-phone-plans/affordable-data-pl... Their hotspot page shows two which are free with a 5GB plan, but I can't find a deal which makes them free with the 512MB one though.
- matttrotter 5y agoNice!! You could spend $49 on this, and after 500 MB (~5000 pictures?), just buy another one and replace it! Have any project pages? GitHub? website? etc?
- leo_bloom 5y ago> and after 500 MB (~5000 pictures?), just buy another one and replace it! That sounds very wasteful, to throw hardware away because a subscription ended.
- matttrotter 5y agoIt was meant in jest. :)
- SavantIdiot 5y agoGreat idea! I've always wanted to set one of these up to catch the illegal dumpers who leave truckloads of crap on the forest road I live on. Did you use the app "motion" with a post-hook?
- chime 5y agoHow do you power it?