Category Archives: Raspberry Pi

That was a waste of time

Posted on February 3, 2025 by larry

I thought I could install kalkun and gammu on different servers. Just learned they need to be on the same server. The good news is that the lte connection is still good. Has not gone down yet. Weight: 334.4

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There Be Snow

Posted on February 2, 2025 by larry

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 … Continue reading →

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Cell Tower Near Me

Posted on February 1, 2025 by larry

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 … Continue reading →

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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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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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