Folks
I've successfully had Cortex monitoring my gas and electric consumption for some time now, using a photodiode for the electric meter, and an IR emitter/reciever for the gas meter, both linked to a LTH module with reflashed pulse count firmware.
Listening to the radio the other day I heard an ad for British Gas 'Energy Smart' - essentially its a giveaway for a free wireless electricity consumption meter, and a mechanism for you to provide monthly meter readings for more accurate bills. Since I'm with BG on their dual fuel tarrif (and I'm a sucker for free tech), I thought I'd sign up. It seems you can send BG your gas and electric readings via web, text or email each month, and that got me thinking - 'could Cortex autmatically send emails to BG for me?'
In order to achieve this, Cortex would have to know current meter readings, and increment a counter as appropriate. A monthly schedule could be set up for an email to be sent to a suitable template, to include the current gas and electric meter readings, based on the counter values.
How possible do you think this may be? Does Cortex have such a counter somewhere, and can an email be scheduled as described?
John
I've successfully had Cortex monitoring my gas and electric consumption for some time now, using a photodiode for the electric meter, and an IR emitter/reciever for the gas meter, both linked to a LTH module with reflashed pulse count firmware.
Listening to the radio the other day I heard an ad for British Gas 'Energy Smart' - essentially its a giveaway for a free wireless electricity consumption meter, and a mechanism for you to provide monthly meter readings for more accurate bills. Since I'm with BG on their dual fuel tarrif (and I'm a sucker for free tech), I thought I'd sign up. It seems you can send BG your gas and electric readings via web, text or email each month, and that got me thinking - 'could Cortex autmatically send emails to BG for me?'
In order to achieve this, Cortex would have to know current meter readings, and increment a counter as appropriate. A monthly schedule could be set up for an email to be sent to a suitable template, to include the current gas and electric meter readings, based on the counter values.
How possible do you think this may be? Does Cortex have such a counter somewhere, and can an email be scheduled as described?
John
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