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

I'm of the school that this kind of interfaces should not be run directly
on the i but on their own self contained board (be it an arduino, pi, or
even an atom box with linux/windows if you so desire) and just connect to a
socket/webservice or other server app running in the i for reports. In
Mike's case, i would only let the i know the event duration and the station
but not burden it with running the counter and waiting for the off signal...
In any case, for production enviroments you should search for off the shelf
appliances that can give you peace of mind i've seen some cases where
homebrew electronics bring more problems than they solve (and other where
they work flawlessly).

Best of luck with that,

Roberto

On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 9:36 PM, Mike Cunningham <mike.cunningham@xxxxxxx>
wrote:

Interesting that this thread just started as I was recenlty asked for
something similar but maybe a little more complex.
I was asked if we could connect a button (light a push button switch) to
our system and then have the button push turn on a light and make an image
blink on a large monitor and log the station where the button was pressed
with a timestamp. Then do the reverse when the button was pressed again to
turn off the light stop the blinking image and log the timestamp. Calculate
the time difference and report on the length of time the light was on and
at what station.
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Subject: Re: Has anyone interfaced an external system example, sounding a
buzzer and turning on a light.

On 2/11/2016 5:45 PM, Darryl Freinkel wrote:

This is along the lines I was thinking. I may need a vendor approved

device though, so if anyone knows of a vendor device interface as well that
would be appreciated.

Try the following searches:
IP Managed Remote Power Strip
Web Power Switch
Internet Power Switch

They are appliances - power strips - that are networked. Plug your
light, alarm, buzzer, etc into the strip and turn the whole strip on and
off remotely. Some of them allow one to address individual sockets.
This one is UL listed and 1U rack mounted:

http://www.amazon.com/Managed-Designed-Manufactured-Synaccess-Networks/dp/B0039OZKPE

I have no financial interest in any gadgets mentioned here.

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