Check out "home automation" on the web There's a whole bunch of
stuff on controlling houses with standards, protocols, controllers etc Which
is probably overkill for switching an electric blanket on :-) Not sure if
the US standard is applicably/compatible with NZ (probably not, but the
theory's sound)...
Rgds
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jeremy Coulter
> Sent: Friday, 21 May 1999 10:36
> To: Multiple recipients of list offtopic
> Subject: RE: [DUG-OFFTOPIC]: Controlling external devices from PC
>
>
> Well I have seen these things that you can get in the states that
> control 15
> devices or something like that, that you can plu things like heaters or
> tvs
> or what ever into, and control them from you PC's Parrallel port...I
> have
> had mixed results with playing with devices I have made that are
> controlled
> via LPT prot in the past, But these wee black boxes from the stats, ONLY
> run
> on 117v ! so thats no good to me...and they are only about $200 US or
> there
> abouts.
>
> I have a book called, Controlling Your World From The PC", and it says
> there
> are savety thinks you can to to protect your PC from being fried...like
> using Solid State Relays, as they can deal with Spikes as they are
> optical
> etc.
>
>
>
> Jeremy Coulter
> Application Developer
>
> Application Development Centre
> Compaq Computer New Zealand Ltd.
>
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