GUMPY

Twenty five years ago we had a lock gate fall off, in the second lock up the Atherstone flight, narrowly missing the stern of our boat. A disgruntled BW employee had removed the collar😱 Vandalism is nothing new

The way things are going climate wise I won't have to go that far 😱

The way Nick suggested is the only way to do it properly. Any other temporary way is dancing with disaster. JFDI

Yes they said it was delivered to and received by me😲 Still it's here, just got to wait for some fine/warm weather and decide where to launch it, probably not my local Canal as it's not in water.

Maybe the Volockies upset someone and this was their revenge 😱

Just the one. Trying to decide where to use it first as it's to big to fit in the swimming pool.

I once at Lechlade knocked a mooring pin into a wasps nest, I was badly stung and my head looked like The Mekon. Took a load of antihistamine tablets that helped reduce the pain and swelling.

DPD delivered it to the porch, neighbour now has it in safe keeping. That's Yodel Evri are good round here

It was supposed to be Monday but it arrived Friday whilst we are away.

Some people might assume there is a car park down there 😲😎😱🥴

Went out wandering yesterday

Hopefully the Great Ouse won't get much higher, we are visiting friends just up from there near The King of the Belgians this weekend. Whilst C is at the hairdresser's today I'm spending the time flood spotting in the Nene valley😲

Sorry but it sounds and looks bollix to me.

Just walked over the Nene at Islip Bridge. Looks to be running faster than I have seen. Even under the main navigation arch there was only about 4ft headroom 😱

TeamViewer cost if not being used for business £0.00 Cost of remote phone £10 Extra Victron kit to make the system work cost £££££. If you can control the units on a phone/tablet from inside the boat you can do it remotely with TeamViewer. I won't need any of this on the new boat 🤔

Nice looking system, means I would have to learn R-Pi having failed once 😟 I spent ages with mine trying to find a BT to WiFi converter before I had the TeamViewer moment then it all became so obvious.

All of a sudden the ground has become dangerous😱

I run team viewer on my device and TeamViewer Host on the remote device. Glad to have been of help😎

However burning diesel produces particulates not good for anyone near the boat!

I have to agree with Nick about the heating, in all the time I used the remote system there was only one failure and that was to switch on so we arrived to a cold boat. I didn't check that I had got a reply from the system to say the relay was on so the SMS must have got lost on its way to the boat. Never used the diesel heater as frost prevention preferring to use electric radiators, worst that could happen if they stayed on was the meter running out of credit and that I couldn't top up remotely 😲

It's more about telling me what my solar is doing when the caravan is in storage and I am not there. There are demands on the system, alarm etc so if solar fails the batteries will go flat. With this system I will know before it happens. On the boat I had a system that warned me by SMS if the batteries went below 75% in October 22 they dropped four nights on the trot being recharged every day by the solar. Alarm bells rang in my head so I went up to the boat to find one battery had a shorted cell. If this had been left the battery may have exploded, so I am glad I had a warning system in place. Fine if you don't want warnings of failure that's your prerogative You are not looking in the right place

After a light lunch in the pub and the rest of the afternoon playing with my devices I have the system fully up and working 😎 Only glitch is that you have to open the app and connect once locally before you can connect remotely 😲 Other than that it works cross platform from both Windows and Android. It works seamlessly with both the Fogstar app and the Victron app and in fact I can install and run any app on the phone that doesn't require a restart 🤔 Only hardware required are a 4g phone to install tha apps on and a data SIM both of which I had lying about. The battery and charger in the screenshots are not connected hence the odd readings. All I have to do is find time to install the battery and charger at present both are in my workshop. All in all a good afternoon's playing😉

Yes it gives me full control of the apps just as if I had the phone in my hand. I had forgotten what a useful piece of software it is, I used to use it at work years ago. Now just got to configure the old phone so it has the relevant stuff on it. Also decide whether I use my router or put the sim in the phone, one less pof if i just put it in the phone. Main reason for this is so I can look at the solar output v battery charging on cold days to see how much heating is going on.

Yes but it's already up and running with the same control as I have using the Apps for zero cost and only a few minutes time reminding myself how TeamViewer works. I fought with a R-Pi when they first came out not going down that road again. Did I mention I'm a cheapskate No shunt needed as BMS has it effectively built in.