Raspberry pi Zero and USB 3G internet and XMPP = awesome IoT device(albert-david.blogspot.com)
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Raspberry pi Zero and USB 3G internet and XMPP = awesome IoT device
http://albert-david.blogspot.com/2016/09/rbox-raspberry-pi-zero-usb-3g-internet.html
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Here in Germany(or in India), its easy to find Huawei-E173 in the price range of 15 to 20 dollars, most of the time i just collect all those used usb-3g-sticks from ebay for a throwaway price of 4-8 dollars.
Have you seen http://Starterkit.att.com ?
Would it be of value if the cellular shield was sold on its own separately ?
Would it be of value if the cellular shield was sold on its own separately ?
not sure what is the monthly pricing of this developer sim card. Here in Germany, i use fonic/congstar prepaid sim cards from the super market for 10euro's which comes with 10euro balance. These prepaid sim card's have a data plan of 100MB/30days for just 2Euros. In my xmpp based raspi-IoT solution 100MB per month is sufficient - hence my running cost of this IoT setup is around 2Euros/month.
In the USA, tmobile will be shutting down 2g in I think 2020, which is not that far off. Hence me wanting to get on 3g ASAP, but all solutions seem ridiculously expensive.
I haven't looked as 3g USB do goes in the past, they seem to be sub twenty dollars, but there is no way I am having my little micro with 8kb of ram run an entire host USB stack with enough resources left over for my code.