On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 01:56:00PM -0700, Mirza Dedic wrote: > I know, totally off topic but what if you really wanted to? I want to > monitor our Coffee Machine to warn me when it is running low (so that > I can go there & put a new coffee in for some fresssh coffee).
It's not OT, but you shouldn't have piggy backed it. I would use either an optical sensor pointed through the pot position at about the 20% height level, or a strain gage scale under the entire coffeemaker, calibrated for the tare weight of the equipment. Remember that either approach will false-positive when people pick up the pot to pour coffee. Urns work better in this environment. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://baylink.pitas.com '87 e24 St Petersburg FL USA http://photo.imageinc.us +1 727 647 1274 Those who cast the vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything. -- (Joseph Stalin) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
