You might want to put a Cat5 jack in the garage where you would put an irrigation controller. See AccuWater.com for the latest in weather-based irrigation controllers. (Disclaimer: I am the inventor)
[Apologies for posting these under another reply thread earlier - it was unintentional]
Be sure to put a Cat5 drop in the garage where you expect to put an irrigation controller. See AccuWater.com for the latest in weather-based irrigation controllers. (Disclaimer: I'm the inventor).
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When my father died, I spent the next couple of days cleaning up his affairs. He had an AOL account, and when I went to cancel it, I had a similar horror story. First off, it took me an hour to find a phone number where I could call to cancel. I was then on hold for 20+ minutes, only to have the customer service agent tell me that I wasn't authorized to cancel the account - only my dead father could do that. When I protested, he said I'd have to send a certified copy of his death certificate, to which I blew a fuse. I really let him have it, and he relented - "OK, it's cancelled." What this shows is that there aren't hard and fast rules governing what they can and can't do. Instead, AOL has designed the process and coached the people to make it as difficult as possible for someone to cancel. Oh, BTW, this happened almost five years ago. This isn't a new phenomenon.
Using Tim Witham's wx200d software (Sourceforge, Linux only) and an Oregon Scientific WM-918 weather station, you can log all the interesting factors (wind, temp, humidity, rainfall, etc.) and produce web charts. The WM-918 can be found for as little as $249 on the web.
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You might want to put a Cat5 jack in the garage where you would put an irrigation controller. See AccuWater.com for the latest in weather-based irrigation controllers. (Disclaimer: I am the inventor)
[Apologies for posting these under another reply thread earlier - it was unintentional]
Be sure to put a Cat5 drop in the garage where you expect to put an irrigation controller. See AccuWater.com for the latest in weather-based irrigation controllers. (Disclaimer: I'm the inventor).
When my father died, I spent the next couple of days cleaning up his affairs. He had an AOL account, and when I went to cancel it, I had a similar horror story. First off, it took me an hour to find a phone number where I could call to cancel. I was then on hold for 20+ minutes, only to have the customer service agent tell me that I wasn't authorized to cancel the account - only my dead father could do that. When I protested, he said I'd have to send a certified copy of his death certificate, to which I blew a fuse. I really let him have it, and he relented - "OK, it's cancelled." What this shows is that there aren't hard and fast rules governing what they can and can't do. Instead, AOL has designed the process and coached the people to make it as difficult as possible for someone to cancel. Oh, BTW, this happened almost five years ago. This isn't a new phenomenon.
take a look at ClearCube - www.clearcube.com
Everyone gets their own PC and they can be centrally managed, but it's thin on the desktop.
Using Tim Witham's wx200d software (Sourceforge, Linux only) and an Oregon Scientific WM-918 weather station, you can log all the interesting factors (wind, temp, humidity, rainfall, etc.) and produce web charts. The WM-918 can be found for as little as $249 on the web.