Game off

[blades95]

What sort of wireless device do you use to send the signal back to your PC?

I've worked with plenty of thermocouples for monitoring outdoor water temperatures -cheap as chips - but these have all been physically wired up to the control system, which switches the tank immersion heater on if it gets close to freezing.

Zigbee stuff is quite popular in home automation circles, like this one: https://sonoff.tech/en-uk/products/sonoff-zigbee-temperature-and-humidity-sensor-snzb-02p

I had one controlling the extractor fan based on humidity in my old house.

 

[Nickydblade]

Yeah fair enough, take your point and I'll stick to what I know. The fridge is currently 1.46C with an average today of 2.1C, max of 4.72C and min -0.74C, no alarms and no surprises

 

[Bartleby]

What sort of wireless device do you use to send the signal back to your PC?

I've worked with plenty of thermocouples for monitoring outdoor water temperatures -cheap as chips - but these have all been physically wired up to the control system, which switches the tank immersion heater on if it gets close to freezing.

The wireless ones I have use bluetooth - https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/294714061993 - I don't use their apps though, I have some code that runs on a pc that has blutetooth on it and grabs the temperature once a minute. They work over quite a decent range, and each gets through a CR2032 battery per 6 months.

I also have some physically wired to raspberry Pis using the gpio pins.

Edit: but yes as blades95 says zigbee and/or home assistant looks a good way to do it, keep meaning to check it out.

 

[Bladesman]

 

[bertieblade]

Two key players
Can only assume Godfrey and Barry, one of whom has his leg in a brace and the other asleep

 

[Koh Samui Blade]

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Bang on, these things do happen - but they happen a lot less if you’re a properly organised, professional outfit who aren’t cutting corners.

Has you boiler ever broken down ?
Did you know it was going to happen?

 

[Stevo71]

I knew it

 

[Grey Blade]

You couldn't make it up - but there again you could

 

[lazyfecklessblade]

Has you boiler ever broken down ?
Did you know it was going to happen?

Yes, and no - because I’m lazy and feckless.

Luckily my house isn’t a football ground scheduled to host 27000 people.

I get what you’re saying, things don’t always work as they should. It’s worth a moan when they don’t though and I ended up with plenty of time on my hands Sunday, my plans got cancelled last minute.

 

[PageHallBlade]

So it's Sky's fault that our undersoil heating didn't work properly?

I really have heard it all now.

if youy read the post you would have seen that i said the 12pm ko contributed to it, if it was a 3pm ko im confident it owuld have kicked off but hey you join in with the conspiracy nut jobs

 

[Sheffsteel]

Good caller tonight on Football Heaven, Radio Sheffield.

He basically said United have released an official statement about the frozen pitch but it’s quite vague and there are still plenty of unanswered questions.

1: If the undersoil heating was used…,,then how come it only worked on 90% of the pitch?
Is the undersoil heating on the John Street side touchline faulty? What are the plans to repair the fault?
Normally you’d expect undersoil heating to either work or not work, seems strange how it worked fine on most of the pitch but no heating in another area.

2: If we have more cold days of around 0 degrees (which isn’t a rare situation), then could that match also be in danger of being postponed?
He said he travels a fair distance to attend matches….so when it’s cold does he now need to call Bramall Lane to check if the match is going ahead?

3: He said 1 or 2 hours before the match he was outside the ground…..he’d heard that the match was postponed….so asked a steward.
He was surprised that all the stewards didn’t know the match had been called off. How come the stewards didn’t know it was postponed?

Alan Biggs later appeared on the show and he admitted that he thought it impossible that any match at Bramall Lane could be postponed.
When he heard the news he struggled to believe it….as we were recently a Premier league club with a modern stadium.

The caller inferred there was something not quite right about the postponement
and said the main man Steve Bettis, needs to come on Radio Sheffield to explain what happened with the pitch and what the plans are to prevent a repeat.

Staton agreed with the caller and invited anyone at SUFC including Bettis to come on Radio Sheffield to explain the situation.

 

[fifty shades of blade]

Are people still wittering on about this? Fcks sake, like a bunch of washer women. I'll buy you lot some curlers and a scarf

 

[Edgar Allan Poo]

Are people still wittering on about this? Fcks sake, like a bunch of washer women. I'll buy you lot some curlers and a scarf

 

[AnonBlade]

Pathetic, the lot of you, and not least for the long list of misogyny in this thread: vaginas, sand up the vag, washer women, hysterical teenage girls etc. Yet you’re all presumably males, can you see the irony?

 

[thehet]

If it had been a fixture in the Premier League, it would have been played.

Unless of course, "these things happen" applies also to the Premier League in which case we are overdue a postponement by, checks watch, 16 years.

 

[CrookesBlade]

If it had been a fixture in the Premier League, it would have been played.

Unless of course, "these things happen" applies also to the Premier League in which case we are overdue a postponement by, checks watch, 16 years.

Well if the undersoil heating partially failed at a PL ground then no it wouldn’t. A frozen pitch is a frozen pitch.

We’ve had Undersoil heating for, checks notes, 30 years and this is the first time it’s failed resulting in postponement.

Everyone has had chance for a moan that their plans for Sunday afternoon changed but time to let this one go.

 

[Silent Blade]

Well if the undersoil heating partially failed at a PL ground then no it wouldn’t. A frozen pitch is a frozen pitch.

We’ve had Undersoil heating for, checks notes, 30 years and this is the first time it’s failed resulting in postponement.

Everyone has had chance for a moan that their plans for Sunday afternoon changed but time to let this one go.

Not the first time since we had undersoil heating. Millwall in December 1995 was the first.

 

[derfblade.3]

Have the police been called in yet?

 

[Kenilworth]

I know, might get fined for this

Sky changed the kick off time, so, fuck em.

 

[Kenilworth]

Feel sorry for Oxford fans travelling

Bollocks to them. I travelled about as far as they did.

 

[Selly]

Not the first time since we had undersoil heating. Millwall in December 1995 was the first.

Which was extremely convenient given Kendall had joined us 2 weeks prior or something...we won the rearranged game (3-1?)

 

[Kenilworth]

Not the first time since we had undersoil heating. Millwall in December 1995 was the first.

You just knew Silent would be on it

I knew we had to postpone before for frost but, as usual, I’m high on the concept without the detail but Silent is ace at both

 

[Kenilworth]

Which was extremely convenient given Kendall had joined us 2 weeks prior or something...we won the rearranged game (3-1?)

So, it worked then?

 

[Grey Blade]

'This morning a small section of the playing surface was raised as a cause for concern. With this area still part frozen, all attempts were made to address this section of the pitch for it to meet the standard required for the match to go ahead.'
As far as I know, this is the only statement explaining why the game was called off. It was rather late in the day (especially for Oxford fans) and I think the Club should be more forthcoming. If nothing else it would stop the circulation and regurgitation of speculation and conspiracy theories.

 

[Silent Blade]

Which was extremely convenient given Kendall had joined us 2 weeks prior or something...we won the rearranged game (3-1?)

Won 2-0. In December 1995 Millwall were around the top of the table but got relegation at the end of the season.

 

[Selly]

So, it worked then?

It certainly seems like it did...

 

[CrookesBlade]

Not the first time since we had undersoil heating. Millwall in December 1995 was the first.

When did we first get it? I thought it was 96.

Remember a home game where we were joking about the players spontaneously going up in flames with the new fangled technology.

 

[leppingslaneblade]

Good caller tonight on Football Heaven, Radio Sheffield.

He basically said United have released an official statement about the frozen pitch but it’s quite vague and there are still plenty of unanswered questions.

1: If the undersoil heating was used…,,then how come it only worked on 90% of the pitch?
Is the undersoil heating on the John Street side touchline faulty? What are the plans to repair the fault?
Normally you’d expect undersoil heating to either work or not work, seems strange how it worked fine on most of the pitch but no heating in another area.

2: If we have more cold days of around 0 degrees (which isn’t a rare situation), then could that match also be in danger of being postponed?
He said he travels a fair distance to attend matches….so when it’s cold does he now need to call Bramall Lane to check if the match is going ahead?

3: He said 1 or 2 hours before the match he was outside the ground…..he’d heard that the match was postponed….so asked a steward.
He was surprised that all the stewards didn’t know the match had been called off. How come the stewards didn’t know it was postponed?

Alan Biggs later appeared on the show and he admitted that he thought it impossible that any match at Bramall Lane could be postponed.
When he heard the news he struggled to believe it….as we were recently a Premier league club with a modern stadium.

The caller inferred there was something not quite right about the postponement
and said the main man Steve Bettis, needs to come on Radio Sheffield to explain what happened with the pitch and what the plans are to prevent a repeat.

Staton agreed with the caller and invited anyone at SUFC including Bettis to come on Radio Sheffield to explain the situation.

Part of this is wrong. I was sat in the Bankers at 10am with 2 srewards from the lane . Btw they were all paid for the full shift.

 

[Silent Blade]

When did we first get it? I thought it was 96.

Remember a home game where we were joking about the players spontaneously going up in flames with the new fangled technology.

We first had undersoil heating before 1995, cant remember when exactly but definitely after 1991 as I remember thinking that our home game against Villa in December 1991 would be called off because frost was forecasted and we didnt have undersoil heating at the time. When I got up on that Saturday I thought the chances for the Villa match going ahead would be very slim because there was very thick fog in Dronfield. I kept checking Ceefax expecting postponement but then decided to go by bus. Still very foggy in Dronfield until the bus reached the Bowshaw roundabout and then there was no fog at all! Very clear all the way to the City Centre. We won 2-0 but when I caught the bus back and as soon as it reached Bowshaw we entered the thick fog in Dronfield. Strange!

The undersoil heating helped the FA Cup match against Villa in January 1996 to go ahead.

 

[Sean Thornton]

Have the police been called in yet?

They are going through Hercule Poirot, sorry Sheffsteels witness statement as we speak.