Hi All! This should be a good one. We don't have internet at our vacation home. But we want to be able to flip one particular switch in the house remotely a few times a year. I'm looking for a cost effective way to do so, considering initial set-up cost and costs over the next 10 years.
The easy solutions we can come up with aren't cheap: Get internet service for $30/month, wifi hotspot, and wifi enabled switch and app. $300+ per year to flip a switch on and off 10 times per year is a little much.
We've also seen pay-as-you-go plans that may cost us $25 for 3 months of service. Nice annual cost reduction, but we have to remember to keep adding minutes. We would still have to buy a mobile hotspot, wifi switch and app.
Any other ideas?
The easy solutions we can come up with aren't cheap: Get internet service for $30/month, wifi hotspot, and wifi enabled switch and app. $300+ per year to flip a switch on and off 10 times per year is a little much.
We've also seen pay-as-you-go plans that may cost us $25 for 3 months of service. Nice annual cost reduction, but we have to remember to keep adding minutes. We would still have to buy a mobile hotspot, wifi switch and app.
Any other ideas?