Hoping it is not too bad, but the hill near where I live had cars going up it get stuck.
I found out this morning before I went for a car maintenance appointment. Was going to have my son follow me in the Civic and take me home. Do not thing the civic would have made it.
Luckily, most people did not want to leave home to have their car serviced so my vehicle got done quickly.
Side note, my SMS gateway seems pretty stable.
Weight: 335.4
I should not be having these signal quality problems with my device. I checked out a website called cellmapper.net and it showed me of a mast near me less than 1/2 a mile away. What it could be is the connector. I tightened it and now the signal does seem stable. I also put the antenna on the window sill and make sure it was far enough from any EM radiation.
Another thing I learned today, make sure your 3D printer doesn’t have any tangled filament.
More tests tomorrow.
Weight: 336.6
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, feel so sick. Back on prednisone. Hurting all over.
All this makes the problems with my SMS gateway trivial. Definitely not reliable.
Then ran out of filament on a print job.
To top it all off, I weighed in at…
Weight: 340.0
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.
Also signed up for stack exchange to send and receive questions.
Weight: 336.2
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 comes up, it does not automatically start.
I first want to go through couple overnight tests.
Weight: 336.6
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 kind of tore the house up looking for it, in the process I set myself up for some weekend cleaning.
I did find it though, and adding it without a reboot fixed it. So we will see long term.
On another note, I got gammu working, simple daemon (unfortunately running as root). I think all you got to do as insert your SMS messages into the mariadb database.
Got a nice stack for the pi going. Not sure if that will be the final.
Weight: 337.4
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, but I am getting some connectivity problems. Every so often it would drop off line
This is the output I have for a script I wrote. Gonna make a nagios check to let me know how often it goes down.
I did something new with my 3d printer, I am printing on a glass plate. First try did not go well, poor adhesion, put some glue on and we will see.
Weight: 336.0
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 sheared off.
The only saving grace it was the 3d print face, and I can simply reprint a new one.
Won’t be done till tomorrow. So so close to calling it complete though.
On the new Last Man project, I think I figured out the SMS problem, also found some tips online and a daemon to use.
Weight: 337.6
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 I completed today, got the new 3d printer enclosure, yes it does make a difference.
Notice the difference.
Cleaned up a bit, but did not finish. Tomorrow going to do more cleaning but I also want to finish my message box plus dev.
Weight: 336.4
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 side of things tomorrow.
Then I need the GPIO and I2C stuff going.
Should have decent functionality before weekends over.
Speaking of functionality, I did get the SMS going with the LTE device.
Weight: 334.8
