[tech] Serial Port Games: Smoke Detectors.

[Mark Tearle]

On Mon, 30 Apr 2001, James Bromberger wrote:

> 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.

Of course, if it's the actual computer that you are using to page you
that's caught on fire then ....

Have you investigated doing the job properly and having a proper fire alarm
system fitted?

Yours
Mark
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