[dundee] Network controlled kettle?

[christopher wyllie]

Fair enough, thanks. Yes I did consider wiring the kettle always on but
hadn't thought about units to control the mains. That looks interesting.

Thanks. Anyone got any more suggestions?

  Chris

2009/4/2 Robert Ladyman <it at file-away.co.uk>

> You might find it easier to wire the kettle so that it is always on (i.e.
> no
> on-board on-off switch, it just starts to boil when the power is on) and
> then
> control the mains power, for which there are already units available. (e.g.
> http://www.apc.com/products/family/index.cfm?id=14 or
> http://www.digidave.co.uk/jshop/product.php?xProd=293). There are also
> small
> telehone-tone controlled on/off plugs (I have two, they are about £10 to
> £30
> each) but, of course, they are not ethernet.
>
> The disadvantage will be possible safety problems (what if there is no
> water -
> the kettle's built-in switch can usually cope with this)
> --
>
> Robert Ladyman
> File-Away Limited, 32 Church Street, Newtyle
> Perthshire, PH12 8TZ SCOTLAND
> Registered in Scotland, Company Number SC222086
> Tel: +44 (0) 1828 898 158
> Mobile: +44 (0) 7732 771 649
> http://www.file-away.co.uk
> On Thursday 02 April 2009 04:27:17 christopher wyllie wrote:
> > Hello everyone,
> >
> > This will perhaps seem like a strange request but that may just be a
> result
> > of it being 20 past 4 in the morning. Anyway, does anyone have any ideas
> of
> > how I could get my hands on some hardware to create an ethernet
> controlled
> > kettle?
> >
> > I'm ideally looking for some sort of embedded I/O device that I can plug
> > with ethernet into a router and then fire requests at over the network to
> > turn the kettle on and off. Can anyone suggest anything which would have
> > these capabilities? Embedded Linux would be cool but I was also looking
> at
> > picaxe micro controllers but they don't seem to have an ethernet
> > connectable board (although if I bought all the bits, I could make my own
> > damn intelligent kettle, they have all the sensors and stuff like that
> :P).
> >
> > It would be a bonus if the components are quite cheap also because that
> may
> > make the difference between this being a possible dream and an "is it
> > technically feasible" kind of dream :P
> >
> > Anyways, thanks and salutations,
> >  Chris
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> dundee GNU/Linux Users Group mailing list
> dundee at lists.lug.org.uk  http://dundee.lug.org.uk
> https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dundee
> Chat on IRC, #tlug on dundee.lug.org.uk
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://mailman.lug.org.uk/pipermail/dundee/attachments/20090402/7555e605/attachment.htm