Can't help technically, but loved the "It seemed obvious that I needed..."
phrasing! I read it out loud to the rest of the room and it was well
appreciated :-)
best regards,
웃
Victor Churchill,
Netley Abbey, Southampton
07970 844083
On Mon, 18 Feb 2019 at 10:38, Adam John Trickett via Hampshire <
hampshire@???> wrote:
> Bonjour !
>
> I have finally found a use for a Raspberry Pi...! Since moving to France
> we
> have ended up with a house with stupid electrically heated oil filled
> radiators. They are not properly controlled and quite inefficient, at best
> you
> can control them on a thermostat but there is no clock...
>
> It seems obvious that all I need is a thermometer, a mains relay a
> Raspberry
> Pi and some some software to create a time controlled thermostat that I
> can SSH
> into...!
>
> So I think I need
> a box
> a AC/DC transformer for the Pi
> a mains relay
> a digital thermometer
> an override switch
> something to mount the relay and transformer on
> WiFi Pi or WiFi module for Pi depending on model
>
> I think this is technically easy to do, but the biggest constraint seems
> to be
> that the overall box needs to be small and "wife friendly"...
>
> --
> Adam Trickett
> Saint-Malo, Bretagne, France
>
> Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced
> -- anon
>
>
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