Thats a shame as I liked that idea but it illustrates my point -its going to get complicated and therefore more prone to fups.
It will become a pastime in itself and beekeeping will get overshadowed.
I like technology and I hate to admit it but I would struggle without my swiss army knife of a smartphone but there is a definate cut off point that is too often ignored.
Ive got a Massey Ferguson tractor to assist me with other jobs on the apairy site
Its closely related to the little grey Fergies that got the country back off its knees after the war.
In the toolbox is a half brick and a cold chisel.
It never fails(it dare not..)
One morning last month I was talking to the 'pilot' of an absolutely enormous tractor-ship thing that had broken down in the fields nearby.
I climbed up up the staircase into the cockpit .No levers no buttons -just a touch screen.
He doesnt even have to steer it as the fields are GPS mapped(the electricity pylons are too sometimes
)
The whole plot had just ground to a halt without good reason or symptom.
The dealers "mechanic" had been out but didnt have sufficient semiconductors in his screwdriver so the UK specialist was expected sometime late afternoon.Wasted time and money.
The poor kid didnt even have a phone signal for his facebook gawping while he waited.