Re: Automated Oven?!

["Andy Laurence" <andy@xxxxxxx>]

From: "Kenneth Watt" <kwatt@xxxxxxx>
> > Having left the oven on for most of yesterday, not for the first
time,
> I
> > think it's time I found a solution!  Can anyone point me in
the
> direction
> > of
> > a device that may help?  I was thinking about a beeper that
beeps
> every 15
> > minutes when the oven is on, and when the oven is on and front
door
> open.
> > I've no idea how to know when the oven is on, but aside from
that, it
> > should
> > be pretty simple.
>
> Use the minute minder! ;)

:-)

> Apart from that no and it's not as easy as it first appears either,
I've
> been trying to figure out a way to do something similar for ages. Of
all
> the appliances in the house this is the one I would most like
Ethernet
> reporting of status for.
>
> BTW, it also varies hugely internally from appliance to appliance!

The only thing I could think of was a gas meter.  If the gas meter
(only
supplying the oven) was recording gas flow, then the oven is on.

Andy
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