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Mathew Newton Mathew Newton is offline
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Andy McKenzie wrote:

Could you rig up an optical sensor that looked directly at the digits on the
companies gas meter. It wouldn't have to actually read the numbers, it could
just log movement of the last digit (thinking of my gas meter that has an
'odometer' type display)? Although thinking about it a webcam with character
recognition could take periodic snapshots of the gas meter

Andy


Here you go!

http://phk.freebsd.dk/Gasdims/

Mathew