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My mailbox is in a block of other mailboxes that is fairly far from my home (say, 500m) and out of wifi range without an especially large antenna. I was thinking of making a small battery-powered widget to tell me when the mail arrived and adding it to my Home Assistant (https://www.home-assistant.io/) installation.

Another use may be something like a device that warns if a locked, remote, storage area is accessed. In fact, almost any alarm system that lacks a cellular backup could add one pretty cheaply with this.




Here's an idea about how to start with the mailbox sensor: https://www.twilio.com/blog/iot-mailbox-sensor-m2m-to-sms-fu.... This one sends an SMS when triggered, but you could certainly add it into Home Assistant too.


LoRa WAN and such tech can be very useful for this.


Thanks! I hadn't seen this!




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