A neat way to monitor temperature and bilge water( as well as other things)

I does indeed require a wifi network so it would be no use if you haven't got access to this. Using a phone as a hotspot would be pointless unless of course your're going to leave a phone on the boat permanently which would need to be left plugged in to a power supply.

But that said, providing you do have access to wifi it looks like a relatively cheap way to monitor lots of things, not just temperature or water.

According to their site, they have started shipping the device so it It looks like they are available to buy now.
 
PaulGooch said:
Not something i've ever looked into, never had an android phone :eek:

How would this work with the Twine ?
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I'm no expert but here my take on this:
Assuming the phone has the ability to be used as a hotspot (lots don't) AND assuming the network provider allows tethering you could use the phone to provide the internet access necessary to run twine. The phone and Twine would communicate with the Cloud based application and you would receive the information you've programmed into Twine's software.

The above method would in practice work but I've no idea if leaving your phone permanently connected to the device would be costly because of the amount of data (almost certainly very small amount of data would be sent) that would be sent over the network.

The obvious way to use this would be to use your marina's wifi - (if you're fortunate to be on a marina). I haven't got one of these devices and I have nothing to do with the company that's making them, but I'm intrigued by this type of technology.
It's like Tomorrows World got it right all those years ago!
 
Thepipdoc said:
I'm no expert but here my take on this:
Assuming the phone has the ability to be used as a hotspot (lots don't) AND assuming the network provider allows tethering you could use the phone to provide the internet access necessary to run twine. The phone and Twine would communicate with the Cloud based application and you would receive the information you've programmed into Twine's software.

The above method would in practice work but I've no idea if leaving your phone permanently connected to the device would be costly because of the amount of data (almost certainly very small amount of data would be sent) that would be sent over the network.

The obvious way to use this would be to use your marina's wifi - (if you're fortunate to be on a marina). I haven't got one of these devices and I have nothing to do with the company that's making them, but I'm intrigued by this type of technology.
It's like Tomorrows World got it right all those years ago!
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It does sound interesting and if the cost of having it connected to the phone wasn't high, it would work nicely with a phone, no reliance on the marina keeping their wifi working. Would still be a cheap system, second hand android phones are peanuts on Ebay.
 
The problem with using marina wifi is needing to login. Probably logged out automatically after a while by the network & disconections are not exactly rare in a marina.

Lots of wifi networks require a manual user entry via their web page. So you have to launch a browser in Android & even if the browser remembers the login you still have to press enter.

Tricky when you are not there :)

I have been trying to do this with my monitoring project in La Napoule. I can send a sms that fires up Firefox on the laptop on the boat which then opens the Orange wifi, enters the username + password but am unable to find a way to press enter. I use an addon called Greasemonkey which runs a bit of java but it will not work on Orange. Probably a way round it but I am not a java coder so better start learning I guess :D
 
This stuff's all very well providing you can react instantly to remedy the issue. Are you really going to tear down to the boat to start the engines at 3:20 am when your frost alert wakes you (and swimbo) up?
 
Forty_Two said:
The problem with using marina wifi is needing to login. Probably logged out automatically after a while by the network & disconections are not exactly rare in a marina.

Lots of wifi networks require a manual user entry via their web page. So you have to launch a browser in Android & even if the browser remembers the login you still have to press enter.

Tricky when you are not there :)

I have been trying to do this with my monitoring project in La Napoule. I can send a sms that fires up Firefox on the laptop on the boat which then opens the Orange wifi, enters the username + password but am unable to find a way to press enter. I use an addon called Greasemonkey which runs a bit of java but it will not work on Orange. Probably a way round it but I am not a java coder so better start learning I guess :D
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I use 'AutoMacroRecorder' this enables you to record mouse actions (including clicking 'logon' and play them back at any time - works for me as I use it to automatically log into a camera webpage everytime my lounge laptop reboots
If you can get an SMS to run this instead then you could fire up firefox, enter user and password and click login or whatever.


Andy
 
On the face of it the thing looks ideal, I would want to investigate the internal vibration / movement sensor thing before using on a boat though, if it can't be regulated or disabled I could see it causing numerous false alarms.
 
CobraYellowfin said:
I use 'AutoMacroRecorder' this enables you to record mouse actions (including clicking 'logon' and play them back at any time - works for me as I use it to automatically log into a camera webpage everytime my lounge laptop reboots
If you can get an SMS to run this instead then you could fire up firefox, enter user and password and click login or whatever.


Andy
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Thanks I will have a look at that :)

Paul
 
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