So I was able to jump pop the Wif’s laptop. It was able to upload the test SMS code without going into a death spiral. What it wasn’t able to do though was send our receive a text.
Next steps:
Touch base with Ting’s customer service, and make sure my SIM card is for reals activated.
If so, get a burner on Amazon, and make sure SIM card works.
If that passes, get a FONA from Adafruit, and see if that works. If it does, start looking at make the RePhone into BLE slave to the FONA powered my phone.
Peter's stuff.