That reminds me of a thing I was thinking of doing..... You can drop the arms on a rail road crossing by simply shorting out the tracks. The RR tracks have a somewhat electrically isolated segment that can detect the oncoming train by passing a current through the tracks.
There was once a particularly cranky guy that had to cross a crossing every day to and from work several times. I considered putting a transmitter in his truck that would trigger a relay that would drop the arms when they sensed the approach of his truck. Keep them down for maybe 2 minutes. I still smile when I think about this project I never did. From: Cameron Crum Sent: Monday, April 16, 2018 9:58 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT One for the borg What might be cool though is to have a geo-location feature on an app that just opens the gate when a recognized device pulls into the driveway. Is that too advanced? On Mon, Apr 16, 2018 at 10:50 AM, Larry Smith <[email protected]> wrote: Because when you get a Borg answer it is "been there done that" kind of answer whereas when you google it is just open house. -- Larry Smith [email protected] On Mon April 16 2018 10:47, [email protected] wrote: > So, I google storage unit software.... tons of it out there. Wonder why my > first instinct is to ask the Borg rather than the google... > > From: [email protected] > Sent: Monday, April 16, 2018 9:40 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [AFMUG] OT One for the borg > > Thinking of arranging about 50 conex containers on some commercial land I > own and renting them out for storage. I want software where they will go > online, see vacancies, rent, auto pay etc. Totally hands off. Even like a > phone app to open the gate for them when they want to get into the place. > > Hate to develop code for this. It has to exist out in the world > somewhere... > > Any ideas.
