Was it a one time app charge or recurring?
What other servers would be better?  

I am totally new to iot.  

I can imagine how I would build it.  Device communicates to a server in the 
cloud.  Your cell phone also communicates to that same server etc.  You gotta 
hope the server never goes away. 

Not sure how the iot device gets connected to the local wifi.  
There must be some way to config it with SSID or something.  

From: Josh Luthman 
Sent: Monday, September 30, 2019 8:48 AM
To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group 
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT Remote Control

eWeLink has the most broken servers and product, though it's SUPER easy to 
install, the reliability just isn't worth the convenience.  It never worked 
when you wanted to use it.


Josh Luthman
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On Sun, Sep 29, 2019 at 4:05 PM TJ Trout <[email protected]> wrote:

  eWeLink pcb's work pretty well for smartphone/internet controlled relays, 
about $10 ea and have a good cloud system

  On Sun, Sep 29, 2019 at 12:49 PM <[email protected]> wrote:

    I tested my system again today with better antennas.  Maybe 2 miles of 
reliable functionality.  I need 3 miles.  That is a half roll of fiber.  

    I am starting to lean away from radio remote control.  I presume there are 
some cloud based switches that I could use?  Just drop my cell phone into a box 
with the hotspot turned on.  A local cloud based relay can then be controlled 
from another cell phone at the other end?  

    Does any of the unifi stuff provide this functionality?

    From: Lewis Bergman 
    Sent: Sunday, September 29, 2019 11:04 AM
    To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group 
    Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT Remote Control

    Chances are pushing won't have the coverage you want. I still on a passing 
system and we used to have hundreds of transmitters. Now we have maybe 10. 

    Why don't you get a higher power mobile and file for an itinerant  license? 
Digital radios normally have some i/o capability built in as well.

    I know they won't be as cheap as the $30  BF junk though. At least some of 
that gear isn't FCC certified. 

    For a guy that likes to roll his own there are a lot of options. 

    On Sun, Sep 29, 2019, 10:57 AM Chuck McCown <[email protected]> wrote:

      That would do it.  

      From: Adam Moffett 
      Sent: Sunday, September 29, 2019 9:54 AM
      To: [email protected] 
      Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT Remote Control

      They used to make pagers with a relay in them.  Are pagers still a thing?


      On 9/29/2019 11:08 AM, Chuck McCown wrote:

        I built a remote control to turn on the air flow from a 175 PSI 375 CFM 
compressor so that I don’t have to have someone manning a compressor when 
blowing sponges through miles of duct.

        Using Baofeng and Retevis VHF murs frequencies with DTMF control.
        Not terribly happy with the range.  It is only reliable for 2-3 miles 
at most.  
        Going to get some 5/8ths wave mag mount for the vehicle but not sure 
that is going to help all that much.

        Could try UHF but I doubt it will be much better.  

        Anyone know of a radio switch type of thing that works will cell phones?

         

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