[K12OSN] I need some software to automate the recess buzzers

[Huck]

This sounds like it would be an awesome little application.

Some form of a gui to create an editable schedule(s) that can be applied 
to the current day/week/month/etc...
With the ability to record from a mic an announcement and plug it in at 
a specified time, as well as play default sounds...
then even if it only output to the soundcard that would be something 
that most PA-systems could utilize(probably a bit easier than a parallel 
port)

Times like these I wish I were a programmer!

--Huck

Keith Olson wrote:
> Tim Litwiller wrote:
> 
>> I'd like to setup a computer at a small school - ( that currently has 
>> no computers) and they also need some way to automate the beginning 
>> and end of day and reccess buzzers.  Is there some software that is 
>> available to run on a K12LTSP that could do this?  I'm hoping that by 
>> having a ltsp server maybe they will start with doing typeing classes 
>> with some terminals and work them into more as they get used to the idea.
> 
> 
> That sounds like a job for..... SUPER CRON!!!  (Sorry, couldn't 
> resist.)  Seriously though, you could have a job that 'printed' 
> something on an otherwise unused parallel port whenever you wanted a 
> bell to ring, and hook up a relay to one of the output pins.  The relay 
> could do anything from ringing an actual bell to (with a bit of 
> soldering) replacing/parallelling a switch if your bells are electronic.
>