I have two questions regarding the RUT241.
For the record, I do not own a RUT241 yet, I try to figure out if it is what I’m looking for.
1st question:
I’m wondering what the speed of switching from physical SIM to eSIM is.
For example: I have a RUT241 with a physical SIM and an eSIM installed. How fast would the switch from SIM to eSIM be if the SIM has no connectivity?
Are we talking minutes, seconds, milliseconds?
2nd question:
On the product description of RUT241 it is said that there can be 7 eSIM profiles. But is it then also possible to switch between for example:
a physical SIM (provider A), a 2nd eSIM (provider B) and a 3rd eSIM (provider C) if one of them get’s out of signal?
Use case (to put it in context): I intend to use it in the car with 3 (e)SIM’s that switch automatically when one of them (in the order of priority) faces no signal. No loss of internet is very important and switching should be fast (in the order of seconds) for it to be useful to me.
I own a RUT241 which i use which eSim profiles. I cannot answer your question about switching from SIM1 to eSim profile #3 for example, but i can tell you that switching from one network provider to another easily takes tens of seconds, up to a minute. I doubt you can switch between providers without temporarily loss of internet.
Thanks for your answer, that helps!! As you own it and are using esim, may I ask if it is possible to switch between more than 2 or 3 esims? The product description isn’t 100% clear to me.
Awesome thanks for your answer. So if I understand you correctly that would mean that in theory 1 physical SIM and 7 esims (so in theory 8 providers!) can be switched between in the order of preference with the ‘SIM switch method’ if one om them goes out!?
Yes, you can load up to 7 eSim profiles and switch between them. But, automatic sim switch is performed at the interface level, so you can auto-switch between SIM1 and the active eSIM profile, not between eSim profiles. You should/could write a script for that, which cycles through the available eSim profiles, but it could take up to several minutes to cycle through all of them to check if it can register at the network.
This is exactly the clarification I needed, thanks. So there is only switching between the physical SIM and the active eSIM profile. So out of the box it will support switching between two providers.
I like your suggestion to write a script to cycle through available eSim profiles. I am a developer on python mainly, so I don’t know where to start. Any suggestions where to begin!?
i wrote a small script which enables a preconfigured vpn connecting when i change the devicename remotely via mqtt, maybe that wil inspire you. Look for the available Teltonika api calls online.
vpn=$(api get /system/device/status)
if [[ “$vpn” == “RUT241vpnoff” ]]; then
api put /openvpn/config/inst1 ‘{“data”:{“enable”:“0”}}’
fi
if [[ “$vpn” == “RUT241vpnon” ]]; then
api put /openvpn/config/inst1 ‘{“data”:{“enable”:“1”}}’
fi