Hi all,
I've a novice with electronics, i think i understand al the principles and roughly know what i may need, but putting it all together is the bit i need help with!
What i am trying to do is make a power failure auto dialler. Basically i will use a third party dialler as part of a burglar alarm which will be triggered by closing a normally closed pair of terminals. The scenario is i have a house in France and my neighbour watches over it, but it is a bit remote so he cant check the security lights, freezers heating etc to make sure the power hasn't tripped off etc. But what i don't want to do is have the auto dialler call him needlessly nor at an inconvenient hour....! So it needs a timer to prevent the trigger being activated unless the power has been off for more than two hours (just in case the power is only off for a short period like during a storm), and some way of not triggering the auto dialler unless its daytime.
All advice on how to approach this would be most welcome!
Cheers
Steve