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| Topic: | IR or External Power Control Through Mac OS X Commmand This thread has 9 replies. Displaying all posts. |
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| Post 1 made on Tuesday July 8, 2003 at 19:49 |
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I would like to find a way to either broadcast IR from my machine or control a power circuit (X10?) from it on an OS X Command. The idea is to cool down my equipment area when temparature reaches a certain level in different zones of the area (contains 4 computers and network gear in fairly close proximity).
Here's what I want to do (yea, I'm a bit nutty, but oh well):
I have an APC Smart-UPS with Web/SNMP Card and a dual probe temparature/humidity Environmental Monitoring Card in an expansion chassis. Through APC Network Shutdown 2.0 for OS X I should be able to have the system to run a UNIX command whenever a high temparature mark is eclipsed from the system. That part should now be pretty easy (given the hardware and software.
Now, the making a command through a peripheral that broadcasts either IR to an IR controlled fan I have near the network area or a different fan through a normal AC power connection. If I wanted to get fancy, I could command different speeds or rotation of the fan depending on which zone was tripped (External 1, 2, or UPS internal). So, how to emmit a learned IR signal? I do have a Pronto from Philips that I can use to read the IR signal and theoretically re-emit, but what hardware can emit this signal, i don't have any, unless I somehow used my Pronto, which I would not be doing since it would be in another room. If the IR isn't a possibility, has anyone used a Mac to control X-10 devices? If so there might be some way to run an OS X command that emits a signal with some hardware/software over the power line to turn on or off the device.
Thoughts? :)
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| Post 2 made on Tuesday July 8, 2003 at 20:32 |
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This is your life?
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Always looking on the bright side of life |
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| OP | Post 3 made on Thursday July 10, 2003 at 11:34 |
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Aww, that wasn't very nice. I do indeed enjoy solving tech problems with a slick solution, but so do you as a remotecentral reader. Given that I already have an IR controllable fan, and my computer knows the temperature of a couple of zones in the area, it's not a huge leap to suggest that one might be able to trigger the other.
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| OP | Post 4 made on Wednesday July 16, 2003 at 22:09 |
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No one? Some of you guys/gals really pull off engineering feats, no idea here?
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| Post 5 made on Wednesday July 16, 2003 at 22:20 |
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| Post 6 made on Wednesday July 16, 2003 at 22:30 |
Mr. Prefect Long Time Member |
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Prefectly
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-Mr. Prefect (always on the job, striving for prefection). |
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| OP | Post 7 made on Monday July 21, 2003 at 12:00 |
schalliol Founding Member |
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Well then, thanks for thinking about it! If I am able to create a solution, I'll let you all know.
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| Post 8 made on Monday July 21, 2003 at 17:02 |
John Pechulis Loyal Member |
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| Post 9 made on Tuesday December 23, 2003 at 02:18 |
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why, you are most cordially welcome, sir!
and by-the-way......a belated happy birthday to you, as well!!!
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| Post 10 made on Tuesday December 23, 2003 at 09:54 |
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I think you are early
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