On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 10:56 AM, Jim Stewart <jstew...@paceaudio.com> wrote:
> However trying to toggle control pins (such as CTS or DTR) in a non-RS232 > way might be a little hit-and-miss with these as some chip sets seem to do > this better than others. Then it might be tricky to actually drive much of > anything with the signals due to the waveforms described above. > Right. And it would be a bit of a hack, which is fine, but my goal is to make something that can be relied upon, and works to spec, and is purpose-built for the task at hand. > > At another radio station I work for, I rigged up an "air-check skimmer" > audio logger machine out of an old (very old) computer running Linux and > triggered it from a parallel port using somebody's program called something > like bit pin or something like that that simply allowed to read or set > pins on the port. In fact I also used this program for even another radio > station where I rigged up a primitive automation system for satellite > delivered content using Linux and a GPIO controlled audio switcher that > they used for a few months as I was building their "real" radio studio (I > wasn't up to speed on Rivendell at that time). > Cool :-) It's fun to come up with out-of-the-box solutions for off-the-beaten-path problems, especially when they work! > Finally, my opinion of Arduino is good until you need to do networking > with them at which point I think a Raspberry Pi becomes more cost effective > (plus you then get power of Linux!). > I agree completely. I have 3 extra RasPis laying around, so maybe I'll play with that. Brian
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