Ray Ozzie's latest venture is a cheap IoT board with flat rate connectivity

Re:Ray Ozzie's latest venture is a cheap IoT board with flat... by bityard on Tuesday August 03, 2021 @02:20PM (#28052345)

Tangentially related: I set up a security camera based on Raspberry Pi in an area with no wifi. It sends notifications and pictures to my phone when any motion is detected. From T-Mobile, the hotspot was free and the data plan is $5 a month. The data plan only has a few hundred meg of "fast" data but unlimited 128k/sec after that. Which is perfectly fine since the images it sends are usually around 100k each. It's been working great for months.

A rare trifecta of cheap, easy, and good. (Although it did take a weekend to build and test.)

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Re:Ray Ozzie's latest venture is a cheap IoT board with flat... by SavantIdiot on Tuesday August 03, 2021 @07:56PM (#28055732)

Great idea! I've always wanted to set one of these up to catch the illegal dumpers who leave truckloads of crap on the forest road I live on.

Did you use the app "motion" with a post-hook?

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Re:Ray Ozzie's latest venture is a cheap IoT board with flat... by matttrotter on Tuesday August 03, 2021 @03:36PM (#28053177)

Nice!! You could spend $49 on this, and after 500 MB (~5000 pictures?), just buy another one and replace it!

Have any project pages? GitHub? website? etc?

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Re:Ray Ozzie's latest venture is a cheap IoT board with flat... by leo_bloom on Wednesday August 04, 2021 @06:48AM (#28059489)

> and after 500 MB (~5000 pictures?), just buy another one and replace it!

That sounds very wasteful, to throw hardware away because a subscription ended.

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Re:Ray Ozzie's latest venture is a cheap IoT board with flat... by matttrotter on Thursday August 05, 2021 @09:44PM (#28082367)

It was meant in jest. :)

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Re:Ray Ozzie's latest venture is a cheap IoT board with flat... by walterbell on Tuesday August 03, 2021 @02:23PM (#28052379)

Thanks for the pointer, could you share a link or search term for this plan?

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Re:Ray Ozzie's latest venture is a cheap IoT board with flat... by myelin on Tuesday August 03, 2021 @03:01PM (#28052808)

I see the $5/month plan here: https://www.t-mobile.com/cell-phone-plans/affordable-data-pl...

Their hotspot page shows two which are free with a 5GB plan, but I can't find a deal which makes them free with the 512MB one though.

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Re:Ray Ozzie's latest venture is a cheap IoT board with flat... by chime on Wednesday August 04, 2021 @01:24AM (#28057535)

How do you power it?

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