From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 5 10: 1: 8 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.qcislands.net (mail.qcislands.net [209.53.238.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9EE7F37B564 for ; Sun, 5 Mar 2000 10:01:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ccstore@qcislands.net) Received: from [209.53.238.8] (helo=wwwa.qcislands.net) by mail.qcislands.net with esmtp (Exim 3.036 #1) id 12RfKz-000K7p-00 for questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 05 Mar 2000 10:01:05 -0800 Received: from ccstore by wwwa.qcislands.net with local (Exim 3.01 #3) id 12RfL0-0006ir-00 for questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 05 Mar 2000 18:01:06 +0000 From: Jim Pazarena To: courtney@whtz.com, questions@freebsd.org Subject: re:Programming Question X-Mailer: SCO Shell Date: Sun, 5 Mar 2000 9:56:34 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <10003050956.aa04497@ccstores.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >Subject: Programming Question >From: courtney@whtz.com >To: questions@freebsd.org >Date: Sun, 5 Mar 2000 11:13:39 -0500 > I am looking for a way to use a closure to trigger an event in a program >running on my BSD box. Let me clarify, I want to be able to use a switch >or other electrical closure, attached to the computer in some way (I know >it can be done with the parallel port) and use it to trigger events- I.E. >when you get a certain closure, send "x" data out the serial port, when you >get another closure send "y" data out the serial port. check out: http://www.sensorsoft.com they have a product called "scom" (serial communication), as well as devices which connect to your serial port which can (1) trigger power (2) monitor temperature (2) monitor humidity (2) monitor moisture -- Jim Pazarena mailto:paz@ccstores.com http://www.qcislands.net/paz To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message