Aaron
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Right,
I've just bought a new Delonghi heater for my living room (because after 4 years, I’ve become sick of my fooking shite storage heaters). Anyway, as I aren’t at my flat that often, because I usually live at the Mrs's flat, I’d love to have the ability to turn it on via the internet...so that the flat will be nice and warm for the few occasions that I go there 
So, question is...is there any sort of "device" which can plug into the wall socket, then have the heater plug into that "device", which will allow me to control its power.
What I mean is....I can set the heater to the heat settings I want...but, because I don’t want it on all the time (because what the point...I’m hardly ever there), I can choose when I want to allow power to do to it.
Bit of a long shot, but you never know.
I've done a bit of searching, but I haven’t come up with anything which does what I want.
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Cosmo
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X10 I think it is, sure you can log in and control sockets and such via the net.
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Aaron
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X10_(industry_standard) ?
Link Fail.
[Edited on 26-09-2010 by Aaron]
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Cosmo
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http://www.uk-automation.co.uk/
Have a look through there.
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M2RTY
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BnQ sell Home Automation products with SMS base station to turn things on/off like lights/locks/sockets etc
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AK
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yup...
I've used remote login in power bar's before.
I'll see if I can dig out the name of them for you.
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John
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You get IP power switches but they are over 100 for a cheap one.
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Andrew
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willay
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I've setup abit of automation through X10 at work before, works well but is fidly.
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nathy_87
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Anything come of this?
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Cosmo
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Aaron died of hypothermia 
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Aaron
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quote:
Originally posted by 5dr corsa-3dr_polo
Anything come of this?
Nah, the whole point in the automation was because i'm hardly ever at my own property. Because i'm hardly there, i can't see sense in spending the money to make this work...bit of a catch 22 situation 
I'm going to keep looking into it though.
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nathy_87
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If you do come across anything, please could you let me know?
Cheers.
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