[tech] Fixing the Door Sensors

Ash Tyndall atyndall at ucc.asn.au
Fri May 13 19:40:30 WST 2011


Because Bob envies my apparent awesome, I was tasked with figuring out
how to make the reed switch detectors work again. Here is my proposal:

Use one of the Arduinos we bought to interface with the reed switch
circuits. The Arduino is also connected to the network. Using the
magic of the Arduino libraries, the Arduino will host an XML or JSON
webpage that has the status of the doors embedded into it. A service
on one of the servers will periodically query the Arduino for this
information, and update the Jabber and finger door at ucc.asn.au stuff
accordingly.

Opinions?

-- 
Ash Tyndall [ASH]
2011 Fresher Rep


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