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
Thank you for the link. It is very useful.
If you use X10 make sure that you send the X10 command a couple of
times. X10 isn't totally reliable. Ask if you want to know more
about X10 (see links below also).
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