Relay control

[Steve Horn]

Is anyone controlling relays (maybe irrigation or whatever - I'd be using them for speaker zone switching) directly with the HB server box, instead of an Ocelot or other external "intelligent" device? Maybe an external board driven by a parallel printer port, or an internal card? I'm looking at the possibility of eliminating my Ocelot and doing all or most of the external world interfacing directly with the HB server. It would trigger me to eliminate the remainder of my X10 devices... finally. And I could migrate the IR to a GC to USB UIRT. Just typing out loud at this point though.

[Steve Horn]

Never mind. Found what I'm looking for - Phidgets.

[Osler]

Gotta love phidgets....0/0/4

Osler

[Steve Horn]

yeah. I'm wishing they had an IR device. But I'm likely to give the USB UIRT a go.

[edgar]

Hi all,

I have both the Ocelot and an old Homevision PC. I am not using either for relay control at the moment but have in the past. Right now I am using a DSC board external to my Power 832 security system.

My problem now is that I want to do some analog stuff as well and through the forum here found out about he VM110. It looks really cool and someone was working with one.

Here is the link to the best price I found for one in the US:

http://store.qkits.com/moreinfo.cfm/VM110

Specs: This USB interface board has 5 digital input channels and 8 digital output channels. In addition, there are two analogue inputs and two analogue outputs with 8 bit resolution.

Not a bad way to spend $80 BUCKS!

Just mary the outputs up to some cheap ELK relays (that is what I use) and away you go.

Hope this helps...

v/r

Kevin

[Steve Horn]

Kevin, Thanks - interesting product. And cheaper ($49) if you by the kit and assemble it!