RE: discreet door/window closure sensors?

["Paul Gale" <groups2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Would need a programming API to achieve that though - not likely ;)

Paul.



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> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf
> Of Jim Noble
> Sent: 11 September 2007 17:31
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [ukha_d] discreet door/window closure sensors?
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> Paul Gale wrote:
> > The trouble with mounting them up high I think is that the window
can
> open an awful lot with only a small movement near the hinge. This
would
> make triggering of the reed switch potentially troublesome (especially
> if my experience of troublesome reed switches in normal doors is
> anything to go by). I would think it's better to mount near the bottom
> if possible? That's give you more accurate sensing if you wanted to
> tell if the window is open even a few cm.
> >
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> How about attaching an iPhone/iPod Touch to the glass? You could use
> the
> accelerometers to measure the window angle to see if it's open, and
> perhaps the capacitive touch screen could be used to detect when it's
> raining...? :-)
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> Jim
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