If you had some kind of temperature sensor on the coffee pot and this was connected to a machine running Apache+PHP and an interace program, the php page could use exec() to run the interface program say every 5 seconds to retrieve the temperature and if it was above say xº it could print "Coffee ready" in the browser window (or active desktop on Win). If it was a unix machine, it could send a messgae to all the networked terminals in the workgroup i.e. those associated with coffe machine 1. "B.A.T. Svensson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message 27E647E5629ED211BF78009027289C6302157D6F@mail1">news:27E647E5629ED211BF78009027289C6302157D6F@mail1... > We are in Harrisburg... > > >-----Original Message----- > >From: alain samoun [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > >Sent: Monday, December 17, 2001 10:00 PM > >To: Svensson, B.A.T. (HKG); [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Subject: RE: [PHP-WIN] Re: coffee message > > > > > >Yes, actually it does as there are several COM to control the serial port. > >But your nuclear powered coffee machine would probably better be controlled > >by something that has no relation with M$, or just tell us where your > >installation is so we can move. > >A+ > >Alain > > > >-----Original Message----- > >From: Svensson, B.A.T. (HKG) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > >Sent: Monday, December 17, 2001 12:55 PM > >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Subject: RE: [PHP-WIN] Re: coffe message > > > > > >The only thing I found about COM with php was the Component > >Object Model, > >and that doesn't really relate to the serial port, does it? > > > >>-----Original Message----- > >>From: alain samoun [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > >>Sent: Monday, December 17, 2001 9:48 PM > >>To: LaserJetter; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>Subject: RE: [PHP-WIN] Re: coffe message > >> > >> > >>Maybe also possible using some COM locally if the machine has > >>a serial port. > >>A+ > >>Alain > >> > >>-----Original Message----- > >>From: LaserJetter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > >>Sent: Monday, December 17, 2001 12:42 PM > >>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>Subject: [PHP-WIN] Re: coffe message > >> > >> > >>Yes, if you had a coffee machine with a network socket and > >>supporting TCP/IP > >>I can see that this would clearly be possible using sockets!!! > >> > >> > >> > >>"B.A.T. Svensson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > >>27E647E5629ED211BF78009027289C6302157D67@mail1">news:27E647E5629ED211BF78009027289C6302157D67@mail1... > >>> Is there a way for PHP to check the coffee machine if the > >>coffee is ready? > >>> > >>> Maybe someone has a sample brew for me? > >> > >> > >> > >>-- > >>PHP Windows Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > >>To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>To contact the list administrators, e-mail: > >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> > >> > >>-- > >>PHP Windows Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > >>To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>To contact the list administrators, e-mail: > >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> > > > >-- > >PHP Windows Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > >To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >To contact the list administrators, e-mail: > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > >-- > >PHP Windows Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > >To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >To contact the list administrators, e-mail: > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
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