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I was looking to get a dedicated Waveshare GSM HAT for the Pi but Twilio is so dirt cheap that I never really got into messing around with a DIY solution.
by marban 5y ago
I was looking to get a dedicated Waveshare GSM HAT for the Pi but Twilio is so dirt cheap that I never really got into messing around with a DIY solution.
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- toun 5y agoAt 6 cents/SMS, I find Twilio and similar services way too expensive. Compare that to the unlimited SMS plan that I can get for 2€/month here in France, and setting up a gateway like that becomes very attractive. In my experience it's very unstable however. Sending and receiving SMS can take anywhere from 5 to 30 seconds, and the modem can't do both at the same time. I tried configuring gammu's timeouts, loop delays and whatnot, but couldn't get something that's reliable enough for production.
- littlestymaar 5y agoFree's €2 per month is probably one of the best mobile deal in the world :). Beware though, last I checked using their SIM card in something not a mobile phone was against Fred's ToS. I don't know if it have since changed.
- DeathArrow 5y agoI can send unlimited SMS for free with my 5€ monthly plan, so why should I pay?
- geek_at 5y agoHey 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?
- bitxbitxbitcoin 5y agoMods 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.
- actually_a_dog 5y ago> ...a dang good job. I see what you did there.
- DeathArrow 5y agoI don't know what happened. I don't work for HN. You can ask the moderating team. I just read your article, thought it might be of interest to HN and posted the link here.