Radio Antenna on street lights

Why not wait for complaints? I emailed my council when the light here went out, they replaced the bulb in 2 days.

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Uncle Peter
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On Friday 13 December 2013 11:14 mogga wrote in uk.d-i-y:

Without knowing any details, I would not mind betting they form a simple mesh network - so in the best case, each one only has to reach as far as the next, or the one after that in the case of single unit failure.

Occasionally one would have a proper uplink.

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Tim Watts

Adding crap to the mains supply is not a good idea, as you found out.

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Uncle Peter

Lighthouses are way more important than streetlamps. I would imagine that system costs a lot.

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Uncle Peter

On Thu, 12 Dec 2013 22:43:48 -0000, mogga wro= te:

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We need some here. Reception is poor and 3G is only possible 50% of the= time and at a slow speed.

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Uncle Peter

The frequencies WiFi uses are a mess. all sorts of things interfere with them.

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Uncle Peter

You don't want to be able to hack your own meter?

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Uncle Peter

The dog gets charged when it discharges.

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Adam Funk

On Friday 13 December 2013 16:49 Uncle Peter wrote in uk.d-i-y:

I suspect the only options available are "disconnect supply" and "reconnect supply" and I can do that with a big red switch.

I very much doubt there is a "deduct X units from the reading" API command.

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Tim Watts

On Friday 13 December 2013 17:13 Uncle Peter wrote in uk.d-i-y:

Because you're such a trolling nobber, I'll say this once for the avoidance of doubt:

Meters don't know the price per unit.

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Tim Watts

They've recently replaced all the lights here in Epsom similarly. The're radio controlled, and report back provided they haven't failed. They're also dimmed at night to save money. I think there are a few master lights which do the two-way communication, and they each control several slave lights.

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Dave W

Correction, I'm someone who has opinions that differ from most of the group.

Oh. Well I don't have one so I wouldn't know. Funny thing is it's only a few years old as I went onto a double tariff so needed it changing. Must have been just before smart meters came out, or are not all energy companies using them? They give me a discount to read it myself.

I guess what you need to do is to stop the meter sending a signal and put your own signal in to tell them you've used a smaller amount.

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Uncle Peter

We used to have a dog which would charge itself up on the carpet, and then touch its nose to the back of one of our legs. The resulting human response was enjoyed by the dog. Who says they don't have emotions?

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Davey

And then goes charging off.

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Sam Plusnet

mogga scribbled...

This company may be running things

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Artic

Smart meters don't use the internet, they use SMS.

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dennis

Perhaps he's still putting shillings in his.

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Graham.

I'm not THAT old. They were 50ps.

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Uncle Peter

On Friday 13 December 2013 23:10 dennis@home wrote in uk.d-i-y:

Who said anything about "the Internet".

They can also use Zigbee and other short haul radio technologies.

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Tim Watts

In article , mogga scribeth thus

Here yer go, a new street light system using the olde 868 MHz channels for lighting remote control!...

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tony sayer

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