First thought....is it possible to open the box with the buttons, and re-wire them? seems like that's the simple, obvious solution here :)
another idea would be to hack the switch so that power drives the motor up and lack of power lets the gate back down...then rewire the button wires into a standard power cable (male end), weatherize it, run it into the guard shack, and hook that up to an x10 lamp module...set up a small box (say a soekris or something) with the x10 rf device, and then set up a web page on that that interfaces with the x10 rf via bottlerocket and a web page :) -- William Sutton On Wed, 15 Feb 2006, Greg Brown wrote: > Here's the situation: the campground that hosts one of my wireless empires > has a security gate (the kind with an arm that moves up and down). The gate > is controlled by a garage door remote control and two hard wired buttons. > Both buttons are broken and the owner can't tear up the road to put down new > wires for the hard wired buttons. > > They want a web-based "button" they can press to raise the gate. I have NO > EARTHLY IDEA where to start with this. The good news is I have wireless in > place and a Linux server doing light duty. The only thing I can think that > would work would be to put a Linux box of some kid (hopefully lightweight, > an OpenWRT(ish) kind of thing) out in the gate house attached to whatever > the broken wire was attached to. Then when someone presses the "I'm here > dammit, raise the gate" button they could web over to that device and press > a button on a web page that would set power to a serial connection that > would complete the circuit on the gate controller that would then raise the > gate. > > I have an unused Asus access point that runs OpenWRT AND has two USB ports. > I don't know anything about programming for USB. Can I use this box and > power up a wire that would open the gate? What about a wireless attached > soekris 4501? It at least has a 9 pin serial connector. Any thoughts? > > Greg > -- > TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug > TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ > TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ > > -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/
