The school of hard knocks on the hill it was a high school 😂
Chris
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On 16 Jan 2022, at 15:34, paulfgriffith@xxxxxxxxx wrote:===========================================================
Jackie, when did Chris get his Doctorate? Must have missed that gig!!
Great notes,
Cheers
Paul
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Subject: [fb-exchange] CorkTech club 15th of January.
Welcome to the Cork Tech club live on zoom.The Participants are as follows:
Ken Walsh, Jackie McBrearty, Chris Egan, Derry Walsh, Martha Parkinson,
noreen Meagher, Stuart Haxell, Cearbhall OMeadhra, Paul Griffith,
PatMcCarthy, Sean Kavanagh, Mary Rose Mullen, and Pat Walsh.
Today we had a special guest Dr Chris Egan who is a heating and plumbing
expert cane on to explain about the Ember heating system and other
plumbing issues. Dr Egan explained this heating system works in zones,
valves with a five year battery life must also be placed on the heaters so
heating can be controlled individually. A few of our members have ember and
they are very happy. Ember is an Irish owned company based in the real
capital and the link for the app is below.
Cearbhall was having issues with his hot water tap taking a while to heat
up. Dr Egan explained that there is already cold water in the pipes so this
has to come out before the hot water begins.
Cearbhall also had issues with his shower and he was wondering how to turn
off the water. Dr Egan explained about turning it off from the tank or the
stopcock can be used generally this is under the sink.
Pat w, then enquired about his heater in the bathroom he found he had to
bleed it allot. Dr Egan believed there could be a small leak that would
cause this airlock.
Noreen, then asked Dr Egan about removing limeScale from the water, this
according to Dr Egan could be quite costly, high amounts of LimeScale could
eventually erode the tank and parts associated with it.
This is the link to the app store:
https://apps.apple.com/ie/app/ember-smart-heating-control/id1105461737
Cearbhall then told us about his new hearing aids from hidden hearing.
Cearbhall is very impressed with these hearing aids and he explained he
heard noises that he hadn't heard in years like his wife breathing, the
washing machine and the ticking of the boiler. These hearing aids have 360
degrees of sound, they can connect to his iPhone. Cearbhall was using them
today while on the zoom call and he sounded very clear.
I started to weep at this point as aftershockz were brought up. Chris was
using them on the call but then he was asked to change over to his wired
ones and he came out allot clearer with the wired ones. There appears to be
some distortion when aftershokz are used on platforms like zoom or teams.
Paul asked about using the alexa app to answer the daily question. When he
uses the app and he invokes siri to make voiceover return to a hearable
level, he finds that voiceover is talking and disrupting the game.A number
of suggestions were being used, these are as follows:
1. do a three finger double tap and mute voiceover.
2. open the alexa app and turn voiceover completely off, by either triple
clicking the home button or side button or just ask siri.
3. if in the same room as the alexa device then either unplug her or mute
her and go back to communicating with the app.
4. Much like the control key on a computer with Jaws just lightly touch the
screen with two fingers an this would silence voiceover for a wee while.
5. Just use the device and forget about the app unless your away from your
device.
The Alexa app does not need wifi to work. Jackie explained when she is in
Donegal minus wifi she can go into recently played and randomly put music or
radio stations on. The devices in the home must be online otherwise this
will not work.
Ken, told us about how his smart plug which was connected to his lamp
suddenly started flashing on and off at 2am. Ken awoke his sister as he
believed she was messing around, none of us had an answer. Ken will plug in
the smart plug again today and see does the same thing happen.
The meeting ended.
Game, set, Match
Lady W
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