Warning light on Fedora System

Robin Laing Robin.Laing at drdc-rddc.gc.ca
Fri Dec 1 18:03:16 UTC 2006


On Mon, 2006-05-22 at 13:52 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-05-22 at 13:42, WGregory wrote:
> > Thanks to the list, I am now able to play an audio sound and recording
> > from my Fedora 5 box to warn out our night crew of a problem (play
> > [filename].wav/ogg).  I also would like to connect a warning light or
> > strobe to the system to provide visual warning.  In addition to lan,  I
> > have serial and usb ports available on my system.
> > 
> > Does anyone know of such a product?  And how to trigger it to alert from
> > Fedora?  Needless to say, also need way to turn if off from the Fedora.
> 
> There are devices that can work as relays off your serial or
> parallel ports, but for something even more general you might
> like some X10 switches and a controller operated by the
> computer.  There are an assortment of links here:
> http://yolinux.com/TUTORIALS/LinuxTutorialX10SmartHomeNetworking.html
> 
> -- 
>   Les Mikesell
>    lesmikesell at gmail.com
> 
> 

Thank you for the link.  It is very useful.





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