Enter into the spirit of things Chris....
It
has to be done because it is a challenge....
not
necessarily because it OUGHT or NEEDS to be done
:-)
The
constant reading can then be integrated with a real time feed from the
stock
exchange to calculate the optimum time to buy the oil and get the lowest
price
thereby leaving more money for toys. OK, so maybe that is taking it to
extremes!
This
HA lark is all about playing with as many toys as
possible.
Keith
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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