Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Looking for folks to have a community technology conversation with

[Timothy Hunter (durham.coho]

On Dec 22, 2012, at 9:51 AM, Sharon Villines <sharon [at] sharonvillines.com> 
wrote:

> 
> On Dec 21, 2012, at 8:38 PM, Timothy Hunter <cyclists [at] nc.rr.com> wrote:
> 
>> The idea is to remotely monitor their availability, not schedule their use. 
>> Check out Laundry View: http://www.laundryview.com/lvs.php
> 
> Amazing. Do you know how this works? How much it costs to set up? The site 
> doesn't give any clues except that you can use a cell phone and receive 
> alerts when the machines are available.
> 

Not yet. We're planning on leasing our laundry machines and one of the things 
we'll be investigating is this service or one like it. We'll post what we find 
out. I know that the dorm laundries at NC State (and at other universities) use 
Laundry View. 

Also we discovered that some laundry machine manufacturers sell 
internet-enabled models. We'll investigate this, too. I think I can figure out 
how to get the machine status displayed on a web page.

Tim