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From: Chris Hill <chris@monochrome.org>
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Subject: Re: FreeBSD and controlling an alarm via relay
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On Mon, 4 Jul 2011, Achilleas Mantzios wrote:

[snip]

> I was thinking of some relay board (instead of the old modem), 
> possibly ethernet controlled

This box has relays and GPIO available via ethernet. It's probably 
overkill for your application, but it's well made and easy to use:

http://www.extron.com/product/product.aspx?id=ipltcr48&s=0

I'd also look at manufactureres such as Moxa and LANtronics.

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Chris Hill               chris@monochrome.org
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