[tech] Serial Port Games: Smoke Detectors.

[Mark Tearle]

On Sun, 29 Apr 2001, James Bromberger wrote:

> Idea:
>
> 	Smoke Detector connected to a standard Serial port (or, for that
> matter, a multi port blackbox like door). Daemon monitors port(s) and waits
> for a signal(s). On alarm, raises alert by some means, possibly smssend,
> possibly email (to several email addresses, at least one of which
> should probably be remote!), possibly by picking up a modem on a different
> port and sending SMS SOS!
>

There was a project in Silicon Chip a few years ago to connect multiple
smoke dectectors to some kind of monitoring board.   Can I ask
what application you are going to be using your evil idea in?

Yours
Mark
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