On 17 July 2015 at 16:24, Chris Walker alug_cdw@the-walker-household.co.uk wrote:
Surely you're monitoring the effect rather than the cause. If the cause is that the door is left open, monitor the door! It would also be much simpler to do.
Actually power usage is a symptom rather than the effect I actually care about (temperature drop), but it's relatively easy to monitor with the right hardware, which I already have (and I'd be interested to know what the usage is like anyway).
I'm no sure that monitoring the door being open would actually be that easy. In this context "open" would mean "almost but not completely closed", and to be honest I'm only guessing at this point that the door not being properly shut is the cause so if that guess is wrong I'm going to miss the next time it happens.