Open Vehicle Monitoring System

[PV-EV]

I'm on the ATT 10¢/min plan. I put down $100 in April and my balance is $61 after 2.5 months.

[hjr]

The $100 was a pre payment for the 1 cent per 5KB on the 10 cent per mintue planThey have stopped selling this plan since early May. ATT will honor older accounts begun before May, but you cannot get this plan. I am wondering if you have delivered any OVMS units to others in the USA since June and what they have done for accounts.

I was in HK a few weeks ago but had no time free... next visit in October will try to let you know so we can meet!

[hjr]

Hi Nigel - yes it is published but they will not sell it to you unless you had the 10cent plan before May... then you are grandfathered. It is typical of the rising prices of data plans in the US. Actually seems sleezy that it is advertised. Maybe it is stil offered in some states?

[dsm363]

I'm on the ATT 10¢/min plan. I put down $100 in April and my balance is $61 after 2.5 months.

Hm. You shouldn't be using more than $10 a month. Do you have some other features enabled?

[donauker]

Hi Nigel - yes it is published but they will not sell it to you unless you had the 10cent plan before May... then you are grandfathered. It is typical of the rising prices of data plans in the US. Actually seems sleezy that it is advertised. Maybe it is stil offered in some states?

Just ordered this plan here in PA.

[DrComputer]

I was able to go to a local AT&T corporate store last week and get a pre-paid SIM and put the 10c/min plan on the SIM without a problem. I already had a SIM for my OVMS and needed another for another project that I was working on.

I know I will sounds like a broken record again, but is there any news on an updated Android app that will fix the screen formatting problem?

[NigelM]

Hi Nigel - yes it is published but they will not sell it to you unless you had the 10cent plan before May... then you are grandfathered. It is typical of the rising prices of data plans in the US. Actually seems sleezy that it is advertised. Maybe it is stil offered in some states?

I'm out of the country for a few weeks but im willing to try and buy the plan for you from our local store when I get back.....PM me if you would like me to look into it.

[hjr]

I wonder if they are discriminating on a state-by-state basis. I will call AT&T with my vacation home address in Colorado and see if I get the same answer!

[Timothy]

I just checked with ATT and I am gobbling up money with the GPRS. Is there a way to easily turn the GPRS off and just leave the SMS working -- then to turn the GPRS (which is much nicer) on just when I am going on a trip? I really don't need GPRS when I am just doing my normal driving around at home.

There was one point where I had a dozen $0.01 charges in a one minute span in the middle of the night. Strange. And over 100 charges in a month--most $0.01 so no big deal--but a couple were $0.93--no obvious reason (to me, anyway.) And I was using the OVMS very little at that point in time so in some fashion it was doing this on its own.

Several SMS were forwarded to the iPhone app--talking about reserving a Zip car--which I wasn't trying to do. Apparently these don't use GPRS data, but it is annoying to have the phone ding when you are busy and don't want to be bothered. I had 4 of those today. Any way to block them? Or even read the entire message? I can see part of the messages on the iPhone notification center, but not the entire message. Any way to open them completely? I can't find them anywhere in my regular SMS messages folder.

[markwj]

Is there a way to easily turn the GPRS off and just leave the SMS working -- then to turn the GPRS (which is much nicer) on just when I am going on a trip? I really don't need GPRS when I am just doing my normal driving around at home.

Setting APN to '-' and resetting will disable GPRS. Or, in the car module, slide the gsm/GPRS switch to gsm.

There was one point where I had a dozen $0.01 charges in a one minute span in the middle of the night. Strange. And over 100 charges in a month--most $0.01 so no big deal--but a couple were $0.93--no obvious reason (to me, anyway.) And I was using the OVMS very little at that point in time so in some fashion it was doing this on its own.

If it was recent, can you eMail me the times of the big charges, and your vehicle id? It would be good to see why. I suspect that the ISP is charging for failed connections - net problems. I've heard of one other case of this.

Several SMS were forwarded to the iPhone app--talking about reserving a Zip car--which I wasn't trying to do. Apparently these don't use GPRS data, but it is annoying to have the phone ding when you are busy and don't want to be bothered. I had 4 of those today. Any way to block them? Or even read the entire message? I can see part of the messages on the iPhone notification center, but not the entire message. Any way to open them completely? I can't find them anywhere in my regular SMS messages folder.

You can either turn off ip notifications, or turn off just the SMS forwards. Both options are supported. Instructions are in the manual.