Philip Trickett wrote:
>BTW, not interested in X10 solutions and I have Cat5
>and 230v running
>to
>the point where I want control.
>Any other suggestions for ethernet controlled I/O?
er, I am not sure whether you want to develop the
hardware your self ?
the method depends on how many I/O's you want.
you could use the following as a guide for interfacing
to hardware.
http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Coffee-3.html
.. if you want to use more then that is suppilied by
the io of the parellel port then youll have to use a
mux and demux (multiplexers pc encoding, hardware
decoding ) or some form of microcontroller (v.complex)
the advantages is that you would get more options over
controll, but it would take a good bit of time to
desinge, and protot for a novest.
luom
__________________________________
Do you Yahoo!?
Meet the all-new My Yahoo! - Try it today!
http://my.yahoo.com
Maintained by the ILUG website team. The aim of Linux.ie is to
support and help commercial and private users of Linux in Ireland. You can
display ILUG news in your own webpages, read backend
information to find out how. Networking services kindly provided by HEAnet, server kindly donated by
Dell. Linux is a trademark of Linus Torvalds,
used with permission. No penguins were harmed in the production or maintenance
of this highly praised website. Looking for the
Indian Linux Users' Group? Try here. If you've read all this and aren't a lawyer: you should be!
