Re: Oil Watchman Tech Specs ?

["Dave McLaughlin" <dave@xxxxxxx>]

As an aside, has anyone with one of these looked at the actual output
from
the probe?

I was thinking of buying a probe and doing my own interface to it.
Probably
much easier than trying to decode the signal from the radio transmitter
which is more than likely encoded or even encrypted.

Regards
Dave...

----- Original Message -----
From: "K. C. Li" <li@xxxxxxx>
To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2003 11:14 AM
Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Oil Watchman Tech Specs ?


> On Wed, 15 Jan 2003, Mark McCall wrote:
>
> > A think someone else tried this before from here Mark.  They
were
> > unreceptive that time too :(
>
> It was us trying to find out the interfacing details to a HomeVision
for a
> customer. Unfortunately, the manager that I spoke to was extremely
> negative about the suggestion of external interfacing. He
repeatedly
> stated that the product was already talking to an auto-dialler
(for
> tied-in ordering when fuel is low) and they have no wish to allow
anything
> else to talk to the unit.
>
> It sounded to me that they have an exclusive deal with one or two
fuel
> suppliers and they didn't want the fixed telephone number
reordering
> mechanism to be bypassed by allowing external interfacing.
>
> As the display is a 7-segment LED, it should be easy to tap off
the
> required liquid level signal for unofficial external interfacing.
>
> Regards,
>
> Kwong Li

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