Re: Has anyone interfaced an external system example, sounding a buzzer and turning on a light.

On 2/11/2016 5:07 PM, Darryl Freinkel wrote:

I have been asked if I could implement an option like this. We have a conveyor system that needs to monitor boxes going down the line. As an example, if the box is not received, the buzzer should buzz and the light flash.

Can you give examples if anyone has done this?

Here is an idea to get the thread going. With an Arduino or Raspberry
Pi, I can toggle real world things with the help of relays. There are
thousands of web pages describing how to do this. Once you have a
gadget that can turn the alarm on and off, connect the gadget to the
network. This is arguably easier with a Raspberry Pi. Run a little
program on the Pi that listens on a socket and use IBM i to send to that
socket.

Here's an example:
http://www.instructables.com/id/Internet-connected-light-switch/