Re: Newbie

["Tim Fletcher" <timfletcher@xxxxxxx>]

Welcome Richard - Beware, this list will cost you money!!!!!

I once put an IP67 camera system into a fish-tank that recognised the fish
from the background, thresholded them, worked out the coordinates for their
centre of mass, outputted it to a spreadsheet and plotted their velocity
over time.  So if you want to do motion analysis on your fish I'm your man!

There was a point to that post, but I am afraid it has escaped me!

Tim.



----- Original Message -----
From: Richard Sillitto
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Sent: Sunday, November 30, 2003 6:11 PM
Subject: [ukha_d] Newbie


Hello everyone,

Yep, I'm a newbie to home automation, but have been considering doing
it for a while. I'm about to move house, and so am seizing the
opportunity to have a go at some home automation.

First very open question (!) : What would be a good thing to get
things going - ie what should I try to automate first?

Second, hopefully more specific question: I have a fish tank that I
am keen to integrate with a home automation system - if nothing more
than controlling the light above the tank. Does anyone else here have
experience of automating a fish tank? If so, how far did you go?

Be great to automate a "water top-up" feature to account for
water
loss through evaporation....

Oh well, I think this should serve as a suitable introductory email
as requested when I joined the list!!

Thanks for any pointers!

Richard.