ZTE phones as modems on Beaver - anyone try that?

[Mike Marchywka]

On Fri, Dec 17, 2021 at 11:29:43AM +0100, Liam Proven wrote:
> On Thu, 16 Dec 2021 at 21:35, Mike Marchywka <marchywka at hotmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I wanted to control the phone over the USB at some point- take picture
> > or use it as a microphone. Presumably I would need some kind of app
> > for that.
> 
> KDEConnect can do some clever stuff, but not this, I think.
> 
> It's as close as I know to what you're asking. Merely needs an
> internet connection on both, not wifi or a cable.
> 
> https://kdeconnect.kde.org/

Thanks I'll look at that. If there is an SDK and the phone is
not locked it is probably easy to write something. 
There are probably a lot of old phones with good camera or other
capabilities and you could put several on one old laptop
and have multiple camera and internet connections
for reliability. I'm thinking about automated modes,
taking pictures of lab experiments, but also a remote
security setting where the thing is unattended
for long times. Kind of like a wildlife camera maybe lol. 

If its supposed to be this easy though to get USB modem
over the carrier it sounds like the stuff the carrier,
consumer cellular, is blocking something. Their Bluetooth
app routinely gets stuck downloading file "Null" 
and requires multiple tries - I even gave up trying to transfer
multiple images at one time. 


> 
> For photos and videos, these days, I use Google Drive. I used to use
> Dropbox. Transfer is very quick and convenient.

I can just store the image on the phone and download it to the local
computer with the USB if I can get it to work. 

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