Re: Re: Is xPL the ideal work-around? Need to access the LPT port from Mister House...

[Gregg Liming <gregg@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Quoting Jack Edin (10/23/05 5:35 PM):

> Steve Switzer wrote a xPL_pa_control.pl which does his bidding the
> xPL way!

For the record, Steve wrote the original weeder (serial) device
code--not the xAP/xPL "virtual rooms" code.  The "virtual
rooms" support
is via TTS targets--not Control.Basic targets.  So, semantically, your
requirement isn't specifically addressed w/i mh.

> This could be modified to work it MY way.

If *you* do it (i.e., make the code changes).  John is suggesting and
possibly offering to work on a xPL client app to perform generic I/O
services (which does sound really cool).  But, there must still exist
some mh client application that can talk the xPL Control.Basic schema
that is being proposed if you intend to logically control the on/off
controls via mh.

> His is for a Serial device, where mine is parallel...

You are mixing apples and oranges here; mh's support for xPL is via
ethernet (UDP)--not serial vice parallel.