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04-17-2018, 10:43 AM
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Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Delaware, OH (KDLZ)
Posts: 4,196
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Originally Posted by rdrcrmatt
Does anyone know if the switchbox web app has an API?
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No.
But it's just a standard SMS device, so there is plenty of other apps you can use. You just have to send it a string to enable the various functions.
The full manual can be found on this site.
http://www.wafer-shopping.com/4g-ver...l#.WtYjOjMUn5J
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04-17-2018, 10:44 AM
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Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Delaware, OH (KDLZ)
Posts: 4,196
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Originally Posted by JackinMichigan
I just ordered it... I am not clear as to who or how I send the monthly fees, but I am sure it will be explained when I get the package...
I just hope some one else doesn't tell me about some other device that costs half as much. This was $300...
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So I won't tell you about the same box that is more than half the cost.
http://www.wafer-shopping.com/4g-ver...l#.WtYjOjMUn5J
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04-17-2018, 06:52 PM
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Join Date: May 2013
Location: Sherman, CT
Posts: 794
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I have the same problem at my hanger, no wi-fi, I purchased the Regal Remote from Spruce last fall ($295). Performed great this past (very cold) winter, 2 outlets for my -7 and my hanger partners -8. Includes a nice app to active either or both outlets. You need AT&T service available, and signal is sent via text message with a reply that switch is activated. You can pay as you go or $70/yr. unlimited. Usually turn it on before I go to bed, and oil temps around 85F when I arrive in the AM. Owner Karl Bumpers provides great tech support.
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RV6 #20477 completed 1991 sold.
RV7 #72018 N767T first flight 11/21/2017 350+ hrs.
IO-360M1B MT 3 blade, Dual AFS 5600 QUICK Panel.
Manual Flaps. (KOXC)Oxford, CT, (0NY0)North Creek, NY.
1941 J3 Cub skis,floats.
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04-18-2018, 09:29 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2014
Location: Milwaukee, WI
Posts: 300
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Jpm757
I have the same problem at my hanger, no wi-fi,
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This is why I'm really trying to pull together the gear and politics to become an ISP for hangars at airports.
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CFI / RV-10
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04-18-2018, 10:27 AM
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Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: Rhode Island
Posts: 937
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You might consider trading off the higher purchase cost & operating cost of a cell-tower connected switch with the energy used by one of these:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0006U2HD2...6U2HD25444179/
Even says they're ideal for RV's!!!
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Noah F, RV-7A
All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men? for they may act their dream with open eyes, to make it possible. -T.E. Lawrence
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04-18-2018, 10:45 AM
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Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Delta, CO/Atlin, BC
Posts: 2,391
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Search the archives on here, there are a couple of DIY options that are very cheap. Apogee kits is one that costs about $20, although you have to purchase a throw-away cell phone for another $20 or so for each season.
Greg
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04-18-2018, 11:21 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Austinville, Alabama
Posts: 2,458
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I moved this thread from the RV-10 Forum to the RV General Discussion/News Forum because I thought all RV owners/operators would be interested in this topic.
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RV-7 Wings
KDCU Pryor Field
Pilots'n Paws Pilot
N79599/ADS-B In and Out...and I like it!
?Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights;
it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living." Miriam Beard
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04-18-2018, 01:31 PM
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Join Date: May 2011
Location: Calgary, AB
Posts: 147
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+1 for alternate
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Originally Posted by rleffler
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Yep have been using this alternative for the last 5+ years to run both a pan heater and a 1000W car warmer under the cowl. With a 2 hr call ahead and a cowl blanket and nose plugs and the engine and oil would be at 100F no matter how cold my unheated hanger was.
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04-18-2018, 04:04 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Central IL
Posts: 5,516
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Jpm757
I have the same problem at my hanger, no wi-fi, I purchased the Regal Remote from Spruce last fall ($295). Performed great this past (very cold) winter, 2 outlets for my -7 and my hanger partners -8. Includes a nice app to active either or both outlets. You need AT&T service available, and signal is sent via text message with a reply that switch is activated. You can pay as you go or $70/yr. unlimited. Usually turn it on before I go to bed, and oil temps around 85F when I arrive in the AM. Owner Karl Bumpers provides great tech support.
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+1 Just got the basic "U-Phone-It" unit via Spruce. Carl was extremely helpful today with a set up glitch. The sim card company had updated a config in transit and a quick power recycle fixed it. The $70/yr GSM service seems hard to beat.
Happy not to spend that hour round trip for setting a timer, or two hours if/when weather deteriorates.
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Bill
RV-7
Lord Kelvin:
“I often say that when you can measure what you are speaking about,
and express it in numbers, you know something about it; but when you
cannot measure it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge
is of a meager and unsatisfactory kind.”
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04-18-2018, 09:14 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2014
Location: Milwaukee, WI
Posts: 300
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Noah
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These are a terrible idea for engine heaters. Someone stuck one on our club's 172's block heater. I came out to fly and the engine wasn't warm. Reason was, a block heater draws a fair amount of current, which warmed up the ThermoCube, triggering it to turn off the engine heater. This cycled for who knows how long till I threw it out.
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CFI / RV-10
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