RE: Re: Oil level monitors

[Chris Langridge <chrisl@xxxxxxx>]

We thought about this last week and figured that this was an example of HA
going too far.

Our oil tank needs filling aproximately 2 times a year.

y thousand litres of oil last about x months.

So the easiest way to automate things is to set an alarm on your calendar
to
pop up every x months. Then you go and look at the oil tank to see if it is
time to order. I figured that if I had a sensor in the tank, I would still
go and do a visual check anyway before ordering so why waste the effort to
automate such a rare event....



>-----Original Message-----
>From: K. C. Li [mailto:li@xxxxxxx]
>Sent: 28 February 2002 22:46
>To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
>Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Re: Oil level monitors
>
>
>On Thu, 28 Feb 2002, steveddickson wrote:
>
>> trying to canabalise one to interface with comfort, I think Li was
>> going to add it to hi project list. The manufacturers wern't
>> interested.
>
>Yes. I have discussed the subject of adding an electronic feed of the
>fluid level to HomeVision, Comfort and other systems with the Technical
>Manager of Sensory Systems. I have a distinct feeling that he
>didn't like
>the idea at all. He kept saying that there already is an
>option to add an
>automatic dial-out module to the device when the level is low.
>However, it
>dials out to a preprogrammed telephone number that the user
>cannot change.
>
>I suspect cosy arrangements exist between Sensory Systems and the
>designated oil suppliers for the automatic dial-out facility. Hence the
>company wasn't keen to allow other add-ons to break that arrangement.
>
>Regards,
>
>Kwong Li
>li@xxxxxxx
>Laser Business Systems Ltd.
>http://www.laser.com
>
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