– It’s way more accurate
Undoubtedly, but we’re clearly going to have to agree to disagree on the usefulness of this
– supplies a record of usage over time [that can be compared with outside temperature at the same time …. which I’m now doing just out of interest]
This is just geekery. I’m not saying that’s a bad thing, but it’s just geekery
– if I wanted it would automatically send an email to my oil supplier when the level got to a certain point
Fair do’s, I’ll give you that one
– it cost less than £10 to implement (and that was for the relay I already had)
Ah, I assumed you already had a Watchman. If you didn’t, and this cost you miles less than a Watchman, then, again, fair enough,.
– doesn’t look shit
This is marginal, the Watchman thing is not exactly obtrusive
Do people not care how much it costs to heat their house?
Of course I care, I don’t just burn £50 notes in the grate to keep warm, but the crux of it is that we heat the house to what we think is a reasonable temperature (although my wife would disagree) for what we think is a reasonable period period per day (ditto) and then basically it costs what it costs. I know that a full tank will pretty much, at a push, last a whole winter, and ideally we can wait until July when prices are lower to fill it, but if it needs filling/topping up in March/April, then so be it, and whenever we fill it it’ll cost whatever the oil price happens to be. I don’t need to know it cost me £3.26 today, £2.82 yesterday, £14.27 for the whole of last week or whatever, it’s irrelevant really.
I’m struggling to see why you seem to have an issue with why anyone would spend a little time creating something that’s much cheaper and better than an £80 Watchman but, whatever.
Honestly, I don’t, I’m just interested in why when there’s no fundamental need to. If it is, basically, for the data geekery and the “cos I can” then I absolutely have no problem with that.
