MichaLSA wrote:
Isn’t the https://www.autorouter.aero able to spit out SMS with these data on any number?
Do you mean the autorouter bot in Telegram? The web site has never, as far as I know, transmitted TAF/METAR. In any case, as mentioned in the autorouter updates thread, it has dropped the SMS service for FPL notifications in July.
Peter wrote:
Prob99 it uses a commercial SMS delivery service.
There are commercial SMS delivery services that have wast network of different alternative paths, connections to different operators, optimizing routes across timezones for reaching lower cost and that’s by far cheaper and more reliable than the old Nokia.
I don’t know what AR uses but I doubt it is the old way (a Nokia 6310i connected to a serial port with a DLR3P cable 
) since the AR runs on a virtual server. Prob99 it uses a commercial SMS delivery service.
If I was doing it I would literally use the old Nokia, with a Vodafone contract SIM (you can get them for £8/m) off a laptop, and arrange the server to send a message to the laptop (the laptop could poll the server every 30s, etc) with the SMS to transmit. Then you have almost total control. But it will cost more than €0.07 I think. There is no free lunch.
I have found SMS message delivery via the Golze ADL150 to be 100% reliable, in both directions.
That is great to hear but there are exceptions. Some ground networks seems not to be reachable with some routes for sending SMS. I have multiple routes to send out the SMS on the ground and have to adjust the rules for those in special cases.
SMS to real satellite phone numbers seems to be very unreliable. I did trials years ago with a Thuraya phone receiving multiple SMS sent from the ground and some came in, some never came in, some got delayed etc. I got the impression that even some soft quota was in place, maybe to limit cost for the network as my cost was low (the reason I got started on those trials back then).
One could probably build an Iridium SMS based METAR/TAF service by using an actual Iridium phone as the end point etc. and I guess that would be rather reliable. But in the en there is no point to do so. When operating the GO the ADLConnect solution can do so much more. Its only drawback is maybe the cost but running a GO device is not low cost anyway and such Iridium SMS service would not be free either.
I have found SMS message delivery via the Golze ADL150 to be 100% reliable, in both directions.
It’s not exactly like that. It depends on service provider of destination phone and the package this user has contracted. Of course it doesn’t have anything with ADL – it’s 100% reliable but messages can’t be delivered to some numbers. Believe or not some operators have packages that limit getting SMS from foreign services (like ADL which acts like service of German origin).
I have found SMS message delivery via the Golze ADL150 to be 100% reliable, in both directions.
The ADL is a single product, easy to install, which “just works”.
and we have a Collins Proline 21 installation.
Are you trying to feed data to the Proline displays? That might be a challenge.
AeroPlus iPad app used to work with Iridium Go.
Isn’t the https://www.autorouter.aero able to spit out SMS with these data on any number?
It is not free but it does exactly what you ask for and even much more including METAR/TAF, radar, strikes, infrared, winds, temperatures:
https://golze.tech/iridiumgo.jsp
