Monthly Archives: January 2025

Problems All Around

Posted on January 31, 2025 by larry

Seem to can’t catch a break, problems all around. Most sad one was my dog was diagnosed with diabetes. Had him for 10 years https://www.apolonio.com/blog/?p=4745 Hoping he can still provide 5 more years of love. Another setback to my health, … Continue reading →

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Another SMS Gateway Problem

Posted on January 30, 2025 by larry

Still not sure what is going on, after couple hours it seems to lose its connection. I can reconnect, but it wish Gammu the SMS gateway software would do it itself. Worse case can stop service, run fix, start service. … Continue reading →

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SMS Gateway Working

Posted on January 29, 2025 by larry

Well kind of. I am putting it through its paces. The latest problem is that is seems to fall asleep and cannot connect. I disabled power save and am running the daemon. What is a bummer is that if it … Continue reading →

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It was the Antenna

Posted on January 28, 2025 by larry

I been going nuts with the errors I was getting on my pi LTE module, called T-Mobile support and reached out to a friend who worked at T-Mobile as well. It “should” work. I knew I had an antenna, I … Continue reading →

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Message Box Gen 4 Plus Done

Posted on January 27, 2025 by larry

I am done with this gen of the PLUS model, still working on the normal model. Looks pro, moving on to either the standard message box or the Last Man project. So the software I discovered was the called gammu, … Continue reading →

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Disaster, Message Box Face Broke

Posted on January 26, 2025 by larry

Of all things to happen, I was about to finish putting together the faceplate for the production Message board plus when the faceplate slid off the table. When it landed on the floor, the four standoffs holding the LCD display … Continue reading →

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On to the next phase

Posted on January 25, 2025 by larry

Regarding my nagios pi box, got all the parts, I can get it a least all together to do logic testing. Got nagios running today, and will get the phone thing working soon too. Maybe tomorrow. That is not all … Continue reading →

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Got Major Pieces

Posted on January 24, 2025 by larry

Almost got all the pieces, I know I got all the major components. The relay should be coming in soon, which would complete all the electronic components. I may opt for a Voltage Regulator. Going to play with the POTS … Continue reading →

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LTE Board

Posted on January 23, 2025 by larry

Got my LTE board and installed in on my Pi Kind of cool, couple things, I had to connect the USB connection to make both the tty and the NIC appear. I do not intend to send out traffic out … Continue reading →

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Parts Coming In Quick

Posted on January 22, 2025 by larry

So this is the last man standing project. Subject to change of course. I have all the major parts in that drawing except for the LTE unit. That is expected to come in tomorrow. I could theoretically have this functional … Continue reading →

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