Warning light on Fedora System

[Neil Cherry]

Robin Laing wrote:
> 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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