[Ovmsdev] Note to self...

[Tom Saxton]

Been there, done that. After I'd had the Tesla Tattler for a couple of
months, it stopped working the morning we embarked on a 300-mile road trip
where I really wanted the Tattler to work so we could monitor charging while
getting lunch in the middle of the trip. I tried everything I could think of
that morning while we were rushing to get out of the house.

While crossing over the pass on the first drive segment, I finally realized
that the T-Mobile card had expired its initial period, then had to figure
out how to fill it back up without having set up an account online, with no
way to get the SIM card out from the dash, and without any T-Mobile stores
anywhere along the first 270 miles of our trip. It turns out you can add
money to any T-Mobile card knowing just the phone number.

    Tom

on 4/10/12 5:57 PM, Mark Webb-Johnson wrote:

> 
> Note to self:
> 
> Before spending an evening trying to work out why my car's OVMS module data
> and incoming SMS is working, but outbound SMS messages won't send, check
> pre-paid SIM card expiry date.
> 
> That's 3 hours of my life I can't get back :-(
> 
> Note to cellular providers:
> 
> When you expire something, please expire all related services. Otherwise, it
> is damn confusing.
> 
> When you deny outbound SMS messages, due to expired SIM, please still permit
> the SMS message to check account balance / pin :-(
> 
> Happy 6 month anniversary, OVMS - we've come a long way ;-)
> 
> Regards, Mark.
> 
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