[tech] Serial Port Games: Smoke Detectors.

[James Bromberger]

On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 11:25:06AM +0800, Mark Tearle wrote:
> > 	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?

Well, pretty much as above. Have a page to my mobile when smoke is detected. 
I have a Perl script for playing with the serial port as a daemon mostly 
finshed for doing this kind of thing...

  James

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