> C in IoT stands for “cost-effective” I guess.
Thanks, that got a laugh out of me.
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#32I recognize the forum post as being Salesforce Chatter. So it is one of those Experience Cloud sites.
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#33> C in IoT stands for “cost-effective” I guess. Thanks, that got a laugh out of me.
The old joke asks what is the S in HTTPS, what is the S in SFTP, what is the S in IoT.
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#34> C in IoT stands for “cost-effective” I guess. Thanks, that got a laugh out of me.
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#35>DATE & TIME ARE ALWAYS CORRECT AND NEVER NEED TO BE ADJUSTED Reads like a quote from a Philip K. Dick book.
My guess was that it probably had a time correction feature from those British radio tower integration, but this device is from 2015 (says in the article), so probably not.
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#36Very nostalgic, I have developed several apps before with Lollipop and was surprised with their choice of using WebView. I believe they set the NetThings app as a “launcher” app?
I also assumed that they would, but weirdly no. When the tablet booted up, I was greeted with stock launcher. Also, WebView is only part of the app, they used something else (which did not look like Android native UI) for the WiFi network picker.
Ooh, what did it look like?
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#37Earlier quoted context omitted.
I also assumed that they would, but weirdly no. When the tablet booted up, I was greeted with stock launcher. Also, WebView is only part of the app, they used something else (which did not look like Android native UI) for the WiFi network picker.
The launcher with its Holo tabs and the icon style look more like Android 4.something (I to K) to me, by the way. Android 5 (L) was the first Material Design release (the one[1] that had actual coherent principles behind it). [1] https://m1.material.io/
Yeah, I'd be curious to see what the About activity shows.
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#38A fun read!
I feel compelled to say that all British (type G plugs) _have_ to be fused as the ring main has a maximum current of (typically) 30A yet the plug and socket maximum is 13A. So every appliance plug is fused, and the consumer unit has an RCD on most accessible circuits in addition to a circuit breaker.
Some plugs don't make the fuse obvious, but the traditional values are 1A, 3A, 5A, 7A, 10A and 13A (iirc -- for some reason!)
There are actually many features of the British and European wiring system that I think are really quite good. The device is closely related to a "smart meter", which are being slowly rolled out -- the UI is similar to those rolled out nationally, but it's a bit different.
Keep exploring (and don't play with the mains!)
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#39Curios what was the price the developer paid for these devices.
While I doubt they paid the retail price, and the price has probably increased in the 9 years since installation, the current price is £385.00.
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#40Cool article! You have a small typo towards the end, coincedence -> coincidence