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Hi all,
Does anyone know of a cheap way of monitoring temps in my shed without having to run down there morning, noon, and night?
I have an itc 1000 temp controller for a brew fridge in the shed, but also use a thermostatically controlled oil filled radiator to regulate the general temps in the shed for bottle conditioning.
So there's quite a bit of unattended electric stuff down there, so for safety, but mostly to check beer temps, it would be handy to be able to rig up a camera to monitor the temp, which I could check online, pref with my phone.
I don't necessarily need continuous video. Stills about every 15 mins would do.
The shed is 50 feet from the house, so wifi won't reach (although I could consider a repeater), and I don't want to fork out for another 3g phone contract or whatever. I just want a cheap solution. Maybe wiring up old cctv and running down the garden, if I can get my hands on it.
I suppose one option is to make a hole in the shed door and put the temp readout there so I can read it with binoculars! Another is to get off my **** and walk down there, but daytime I'm at work.
Has anyone bothered with this issue, and do they have any bright ideas that are cheap, please?
Does anyone know of a cheap way of monitoring temps in my shed without having to run down there morning, noon, and night?
I have an itc 1000 temp controller for a brew fridge in the shed, but also use a thermostatically controlled oil filled radiator to regulate the general temps in the shed for bottle conditioning.
So there's quite a bit of unattended electric stuff down there, so for safety, but mostly to check beer temps, it would be handy to be able to rig up a camera to monitor the temp, which I could check online, pref with my phone.
I don't necessarily need continuous video. Stills about every 15 mins would do.
The shed is 50 feet from the house, so wifi won't reach (although I could consider a repeater), and I don't want to fork out for another 3g phone contract or whatever. I just want a cheap solution. Maybe wiring up old cctv and running down the garden, if I can get my hands on it.
I suppose one option is to make a hole in the shed door and put the temp readout there so I can read it with binoculars! Another is to get off my **** and walk down there, but daytime I'm at work.
Has anyone bothered with this issue, and do they have any bright ideas that are cheap, please?