Re: door opening sensor HW for OpenBSD?

2018-03-27 Thread Hess THR
Thanks :) > Sent: Saturday, March 24, 2018 at 11:50 PM > From: Robert <info...@die-optimisten.net> > To: misc@openbsd.org > Subject: Re: door opening sensor HW for OpenBSD? > > On Sat, 24 Mar 2018 22:32:02 +0100 > "Hess THR" <hessnovth...@mail.com> wrote

Re: door opening sensor HW for OpenBSD?

2018-03-25 Thread Pierre Emeriaud
2018-03-24 23:22 GMT+01:00 Lyndon Nerenberg : > By far the easiest way to do this is to connect a switch to the door that > opens/closes as the door opens/closes. This assumes that when you say "the > door moves" you really meant "is opened or closed". > > Whether the switch

Re: door opening sensor HW for OpenBSD?

2018-03-25 Thread Daniel Gracia
Hack an Amazon Dash: just register the thing, don't attach it to any product, wire it anywhere and listen to the ARP probes thatwill pop everytime the thing is pushed and connects to your WiFi network. It's a nice, clean, small, wireless, silly battery-powered no-nonsense overengineered solution.

Fwd: door opening sensor HW for OpenBSD?

2018-03-25 Thread Z Ero
-- Forwarded message -- From: Z Ero <zerotetrat...@gmail.com> Date: Sun, Mar 25, 2018 at 3:49 AM Subject: Re: door opening sensor HW for OpenBSD? To: Robert <info...@die-optimisten.net> For example: https://www.smarthome.com/functional-devices-clc212-10a-

Re: door opening sensor HW for OpenBSD?

2018-03-24 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg
By far the easiest way to do this is to connect a switch to the door that opens/closes as the door opens/closes. This assumes that when you say "the door moves" you really meant "is opened or closed". Whether the switch is normally open or normally closed doesn't matter. Wire the switch to a

Re: door opening sensor HW for OpenBSD?

2018-03-24 Thread Base Pr1me
Robert, I'm a huge fan of over engineering. Thanks for the chuckle!! On Sat, Mar 24, 2018, 15:52 Robert wrote: > On Sat, 24 Mar 2018 22:32:02 +0100 > "Hess THR" wrote: > > Can you please recommend any hardware, that I could plug in to the >

Re: door opening sensor HW for OpenBSD?

2018-03-24 Thread Robert
On Sat, 24 Mar 2018 22:32:02 +0100 "Hess THR" wrote: > Can you please recommend any hardware, that I could plug in to the notebook > and though I could send a warning mail when the door was moved (open/closed). I can think of so many ways to do this, from boring to

door opening sensor HW for OpenBSD?

2018-03-24 Thread Hess THR
Hello, I have an OpenBSD amd64 notebook running 24h next to a door, ~50cm. Can you please recommend any hardware, that I could plug in to the notebook and though I could send a warning mail when the door was moved (open/closed). I can do the scripting part, but I just don't know where to