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Turn your heating on from a different part of the country!

  • 03-02-2007 07:44PM
    #1
    pauldno2
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6 ✭


    Hi
    I own a holiday home but every time I go down there, the house is very cold and takes ages to heat up. I was wondering does anyone know is there a device that you could turn it on from miles away?


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  • #2
    bushy...
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,462 ✭✭✭bushy...


    You can get SMS controlled stuff , it'd probably be the easiest solution , I think some prepay sims don't expire here now.


  • #3
    Gareth37
    Closed Accounts Posts: 909 ✭✭✭Gareth37


    pauldno2 wrote:
    Hi
    I own a holiday home but every time I go down there, the house is very cold and takes ages to heat up. I was wondering does anyone know is there a device that you could turn it on from miles away?

    Hi. I could help you out with this. What is your budget?


  • #4
    Jim_No.6
    Closed Accounts Posts: 191 ✭✭Jim_No.6


    Gareth37 wrote:
    Hi. I could help you out with this. What is your budget?

    I'm interested in how you'd be planning on doing this - fancy sharing?


  • #5
    wire
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2 ✭wire


    If you have a PC and an internet connection in your holiday home, you could do the following ( Might be overkill ! )

    1. Set your internet router to port forwarding to remote control your PC.
    2. Have a Visual Basic program that will activate a relay card connected to the parallel port. You can control up to 8 relays fairly easily.
    3. Connect whatever you want to switch on across the relays.


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