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RE: RE: Measuring bath water depth



> > nobody's home, so no point running the boiler all day.....
>
> Good call! :)
>
> Of course as long as the occupancy detection doesn't involve SWMBO
> pressing a button before leaving the house ;)

Goes without saying Doogie :-D

> Obviously the occupancy detection would need to detect wether someone
> was in the house or not reliably enough to stop them being
> frozen while veging out on the couch :)

NP - heating goes off, person gets cold, shivers, generates enough movement
to trigger PIR to turn it on again :)
Occupancy detection sucks - it seems to be the root of many a HA problem :(

> > bath or something and is purely mechanical in operation. 
> Or is that too
> > simplistic?
>
> It would have to be very discreet.... and not get in the way when
> (especially) SWMBO stretches legs, moves legs over side of
> bath etc etc etc....

Well yeah - and there's no way _I'd_ get away with it.  Just thought I'd
mention as a possibility - some ppl have SWMBOs who will put up with
anything :)

How about those oil watchmen thingys to detect if you need to fill your oil
storage tank?  Or are they based on the box overflow principle?


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