RE: Electronics Challenge!

[John B]

> > I was thinking they would be very handy for connecting things
> > like RedRat2's, where you have an ethernet port near the
> > device you want to control, but no way of getting RS232 back to
node0.
>
> Exactly.
> I'd like every rs232 (and similar) device to be lan connected, that
way all
> my serial ha hardware can be seperated from the ha server. In doing
this, it
> will be possible to have a backup ha server running without the need
to have
> a duplicate of all attached hardware. I'm sure there are other ways of
doing
> this, but having everything tcpip appeals to me.

I agree completely - at the moment, having two xPLHal instances (live and
backup) is no good if the PC with my CM12 attached to it falls over (not
that it
does - it has now been up for 124 days), because even when the backup
xPLHal
kicks in, there's no way to send X10 messages to the CM12.

If the CM12 was connected directly to the LAN (via some custom hardware)
then
either of the servers could fail, and the other would still be able to send
X10
messages to the CM12.

The same could apply to anything else serial: RedRats, VIOMs etc.

Regards,

John