jerabaul29 / OpenMetBuoy-v2021a

An easy to build, affordable, customizable, open source instrument for oceanographic measurements - with global Iridium coverage
MIT License
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reduce iridium costs: make sure packets are "just under multiple of 50 bytes" #77

Open jerabaul29 opened 1 year ago

jerabaul29 commented 1 year ago

It looks like the iridium provider bills 1 credit for every fraction of 50 bytes that has got started: so 49 bytes costs 1 credit, 51 bytes costs 2 credits (not sure exactly 50 bytes). Should try to be "just under" rather than "just over" to be cost effective. I thought internally fractions of credits are used, if this is actually not the case, there may be iridium cost savings to get.