2009/7/11 Cheetor wrote:
> Have you considered a jaycar parallel port interface kit, I believe they
> still come in under $100?

The server will be a small profile box that is being given to me. I
don't think it has a parallel port.

> they do require direct hardware access to work, but considering the software
> is written in BASIC it couldn't be hard to whip together a quick kernel
> module for it. I wrote one once, but I think that was back in the days of
> kernel 2.2.26.

I can barely write scripts. I'm not prepared to attempt a kernel module.
Anything more complex than
echo Relay 1 On > /dev/ttyS3
is more than I'm prepared to put time and effort into.

Yuri

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