[tech] Serial Port Games: Smoke Detectors.

James Bromberger james at rcpt.to
Mon Apr 30 15:11:47 WST 2001


On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 01:37:04PM +0800, James Andrewartha wrote:
> On Mon, 30 Apr 2001, James Bromberger wrote:
> > 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...
> 
> Will it dispense halon as well?

Inergen. Halon hasn't been used for years since it has bad effects on humans.

No, actually, I wont be doing anything other than alerting people to the 
fact, and giving them the option of calling the fire brigade or driving 
three minutes to the office to investigate.

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