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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