When remote monitoring fails...

[mmckenna]

Mic stand, duct tape, camera, internet link. Not mine.

 

[zz0468]

Ha! That's hilarious!

 

[phask]

I have a cheap camera pointed at the washer display in the basement, can switch TVinputs to view. Wife uses it to see if the cycle is done - can't hear the buzer.

Mic stand, duct tape, camera, internet link. Not mine.

 

[Linkero]

This took me a moment to get the joke. I thought this WAS the remote monitoring. Now I see why I couldn't figure out what was wrong with it

 

[DJ11DLN]

Well...uh...gee. See my sig line.

 

[ladn]

7KW? Gotta be one heck of a CB transmitter, good buddy!

 

[mmckenna]

7KW? Gotta be one heck of a CB transmitter, good buddy!

Yeah buddy, That's a big 10-4! I gots swing, I can talk miles. Got my 40 pill lin-e-arr hooked up to a mag mount antenna on top of my hatchback. Auuuuuuudio. Auuuuuuuudio. Ol' Billy Bob down at the truck stop peeked and tunered it with his majic golden screwdrivers. I am the channel master, all bow before me.

 

[bharvey2]

Oh, MacGyver would've been proud!

 

[wscranston]

When I go on vacation in the winter, I take a big round thermometer and place it in view of one of my internet connected cameras. This way I can remotely monitor the temp in the house and make sure the heat hasn't failed.

 

[radioman2001]

You can look at it this way too, cheap radio station.

 

[mmckenna]

You can look at it this way too, cheap radio station.

I was talking to them this morning. $3000 to replace the remote monitoring system that failed. Temporary solution….

 

[radioman2001]

I didn't mean as a put down, I know a couple of station owners. They are in tough times right now, one sold his license back to the FCC and got out of the business. The other is only surviving on PS rental of the site.

 

[mmckenna]

No, I didn't take it as a put down to them. Seems like a hard business to be in. To make it worse for these guys, it's a college FM station. $3000 is quite a hit. They already had an IP based camera system at the site. They just added the camera and pointed it at the meter.

 

[bharvey2]

Maybe they should approach the school's engineering department and turn it in to a class project.

 

[JASII]

...one sold his license back to the FCC and got out of the business...

I had no idea that they did that? How much do you get when you do that?

 

[radioman2001]

Depends this was a 50KW TV station outside the NYC market. Right next to Cellular 800, so probably more than they could generate in revenue in 5 years.

 

[mmckenna]

Maybe they should approach the school's engineering department and turn it in to a class project.

Lots of people are on top of this. As I said, Temporary Solution.

 

[speedway_navigator]

My cousin has the same setup to monitor the temperature of his winery's chiller.

 

[Thunderknight]

I had no idea that they did that? How much do you get when you do that?

It’s for TV stations, called the Incentive Auctions.
How It Works: The Incentive Auction Explained

 

[norcalscan]

Lots of people are on top of this. As I said, Temporary Solution.

You keep saying temporary solution, but in this industry above all, especially with the nuance of IT dept, nothing is more permanent than a temporary solution.

And if this is still "temporarily" there on April 1st, you gotta find something else to point that camera to, "temporarily" for fun.