Re: Medications reminder help please

["noel_pilot" <HA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for the help guys, had a look at the yahoo link and there looks
some cool things there,
the X10 idea is good however what im battling with is the times
(especially the morning times) are not necessarily the same each day!!
thats the challenge!!

will propose some of the yahoo ideas and see what mum thinks!
Thanks

any more ideas....keep em coming!! even off the wall to the limits of
HA extremeness!!!

--- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, ian.bird@c... wrote:
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> I am building just such a beast at the moment almost to the letter.
Sadly
> it is a long way from reality and work commitments are not helping
at the
> moment. Give me a year or so............. :-(
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> Ian
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> Not strictly HA based but I'm sure a HA solution is available!
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> My mum is terrible at remembering to take her essential morning and
> nightly medications.  Meds stored in a tablet box with separate
> sections for each time, i.e. monday morning, monday night, tues
> morning etc etc
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> She's not particularly technically minded altho with time and patience
> can be taught new tricks! email, tivo etc!!
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> Need a solution to ensure she takes these meds each time. Mornings a
> bigger problem than evenings, she uses a Nokia 3310 so no repeating
> alarms available, uses an ibook regularly but not every single
morning.
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> So..with all the wealth of expertise on this community and the amazing
> hours im sure many of us spend looking at seemingly useless gadgets
> online has anyone found something that can help me out?!?!
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> Thanks in advance all....
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> Who knows one day maybe I can have a small touchscreen lcd by the
> front door linked into whole house HA with a numeric display for
> arming burglar alarm that asks "have u taken ur meds today"
before
> arming the system!!!
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> Thanks
> Noel