Cost of wireless internet connections has declined to where you can get 100 MB/month for $15, and with the restrictions associated with text messaging, I have been rethinking the home monitor. What can be done with 100MB/month? That's ~3 MB/day. Bare temperature data requires very little. Pictures more, and videos even more. However, it seems reasonable to use the 100 MB to send several pics/day and lots of data.
One way of investigating this without much development effort is to use Dropbox as an area to place pictures and data files so they are available everywhere, privately. I'll be discussing this in the next few days, providing I have time, what with a sick dog to care for here in New Hampshire.
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