kiwi Posted December 6, 2012 Share Posted December 6, 2012 I work from 5-5 almost everyday doing this, Ive spent as much as 18 hrs in one day getting ready to setup accounts, and Im constantly re-educating myself on anything I can in this industry. You have to love what you do in order to do things like that. You must have a very understanding wife like me! When I first started out on my own after just being a employee for a Coffee Vending company here I use to supplement my income by working night shift for the first 4-5yrs driving trucks 10-12hrs a night while building our Vending Business during the day starting with only 1 machine. I am glad those days are over & so is my wife! I think if I ever went back to that now I would come home to a empty house!! Speaking of wives I think I better go & put dinner on before she gets home!! Nice talking to you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kiwi Posted December 8, 2012 Share Posted December 8, 2012 Cantaloupe systems is good for ice cream machines because it has a temperature sensor and monitors constantly. I have had trouble with their units though and we are phasing them out some. For the rest of the machines we use USAtech's G8 and Edge with a software we developed(not for sale at this point ). Our custom software pulls all errors from machine where Cantaloupe does not. Here is an example of a temperature alert from our software: MachineID: EE100 Type: Current DateTime: 12/01/2012 09:57:28 AM Reported by: DEX-EE1000-095201-120112- SCHEDULED.log Timestamp: 12/01/2012 09:52:01 Category: Temperature errors, Error: TEMP GTE MAX - Temperature is greater then or equal to Maximum temperature ----Notes: Reported temp.: 40.0 , Allowed temp. range: 36.0 - 40.0 The only problem with our software is it doesn't work well with ice cream machines since the alert is only twice a day. For any other machines it is great and has cut service calls down dramatically) Hi Broncho (Vending God) Just wondering if you have the time could you write a dedicated post or blog on your experience with Remote Monitoring Software as I am sure that I would not be the only won interested in listening to what you have to say. I know you must be busy so I would really appreciate it if you can.. Cheers Kiwi p.s. I was going to send a PM but I haven't done won before Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Broncho Posted December 8, 2012 Share Posted December 8, 2012 Hi Broncho (Vending God) Just wondering if you have the time could you write a dedicated post or blog on your experience with Remote Monitoring Software as I am sure that I would not be the only won interested in listening to what you have to say. I know you must be busy so I would really appreciate it if you can.. Cheers Kiwi p.s. I was going to send a PM but I haven't done won before I may look into doing that in the near future. Lately my wife has been out a lot on the weekends working with a non-profit she does so I have been fairly bored. Most likely not tonight because it would take a lot and I have to be at work at 5 in the morning. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kiwi Posted December 8, 2012 Share Posted December 8, 2012 I may look into doing that in the near future. Lately my wife has been out a lot on the weekends working with a non-profit she does so I have been fairly bored. Most likely not tonight because it would take a lot and I have to be at work at 5 in the morning. Thanks.. I forget about the different time zone. It is Saturday afternoon here & its funny what you said about your wife as the only reason I am on here now is that my wife has gone out for the day. She just rang me now to ask what I was doing as she keeps getting txt message alerts from our posts going to her phone from my business e-mail. Have to look into disabling the txt alerts I think!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Broncho Posted December 8, 2012 Share Posted December 8, 2012 Thanks.. I forget about the different time zone. It is Saturday afternoon here & its funny what you said about your wife as the only reason I am on here now is that my wife has gone out for the day. She just rang me now to ask what I was doing as she keeps getting txt message alerts from our posts going to her phone from my business e-mail. Have to look into disabling the txt alerts I think!! Yea, its just been me and the kids a lot lately and they pretty much keep to themselves until they are hungry after school. My txt alerts have been filling up a lot lately too. Might need to disable them because they are taking up a lot of room in my email, mixing in with everything else. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kiwi Posted December 8, 2012 Share Posted December 8, 2012 Yea, its just been me and the kids a lot lately and they pretty much keep to themselves until they are hungry after school. My txt alerts have been filling up a lot lately too. Might need to disable them because they are taking up a lot of room in my email, mixing in with everything else. I better get going as the BOSS will be back soon & I haven't tidied up! Nice talking to you again.. you better go & get some sleep yourself because you've got to start in a couple of hours! I can always blame you if she gets ANGRY at me for not doing anything! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Broncho Posted December 8, 2012 Share Posted December 8, 2012 I better get going as the BOSS will be back soon & I haven't tidied up! Nice talking to you again.. you better go & get some sleep yourself because you've got to start in a couple of hours! I can always blame you if she gets ANGRY at me for not doing anything! Have a good one! I'm still waiting on her to get home. So tired... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mission vending Posted December 8, 2012 Share Posted December 8, 2012 Yea, its just been me and the kids a lot lately and they pretty much keep to themselves until they are hungry after school. My txt alerts have been filling up a lot lately too. Might need to disable them because they are taking up a lot of room in my email, mixing in with everything else. You can adjust your settings to a number of different levels. I have mine set so I only get notifications for PM's and other Mod related functions and when the boss (steve) summons me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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