From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 19 12:40:32 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dt011n65.san.rr.com (dt011n65.san.rr.com [204.210.13.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 96A9714D0D for ; Mon, 19 Jul 1999 12:40:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Received: from localhost (doug@localhost) by dt011n65.san.rr.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA15853; Mon, 19 Jul 1999 12:40:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Date: Mon, 19 Jul 1999 12:40:02 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug X-Sender: doug@dt011n65.san.rr.com To: Martin Knotek Cc: "FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.org" Subject: Re: FW: Radiator controller via serial mouse interface? In-Reply-To: <01BED1E3.B207A760.martin.knotek@berit.cz> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 19 Jul 1999, Martin Knotek wrote: > Completely stupid or uninteresting? No answer so far:(((((((( Or C) no one that has experience with this problem has read your letter and is in a position to comment. > I've an idea of ``controlling" (read rotating:-) knob (with thermostat) on > my room radiator, which has been heated centrally. To keep things as simple > (and cheap:-) as possible, I suppose to operate the knob using an DC motor > (rotation in both directions) switched by an optron(s) and a rellay(s). And > scan the actual rotation through another optron in a similar way how are > these things done in a mouse. And finally to modify a serial mouse driver > for this ``device". > > Does it sound clever or stupid? Have ever someone done something similar? > Your questions, answers, opinions and advices are welcomed! "Clever," and "stupid" are value judgements, and therefore aren't really applicable here. In my limited experience I would say that you are on the right track, what exact kind of feedback are you looking for? I really doubt that you'll get any responses that would include code, so I suggest that you get to work and let us know how it goes. :) Good luck, Doug -- On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does. -- Will Rogers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message