Are there projects that you would finuisng a SIM card ideal for? I am thinking weather station but there are surely loads.

I have a few lying around with data only that I would like to do something with

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I assume you just mean mobile data in general and, yeah, a few. My car has a remote app that works over WiFi, so I installed a small LTE router running OpenWRT with a WireGuard tunnel back to the home network that makes it accessible to Home Assistant anywhere. Now Home Assistant can keep an eye on charge/fuel levels, door locks and more, as well as remotely trigger the heater or start/stop charging. The SIM is £2.50/mo for 2GB which is far more than I need.

For other things like weather stations I'd be inclined to say that you'd be better using a less centralised, low-power network like LoRA (eg. Meshtastic).

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