[GRLUG] Time Clocks and Software

[Bob Kline]

http://chemicaloliver.net/electronics/sheevaplug-why-globalscale-suck/

<http://chemicaloliver.net/electronics/sheevaplug-why-globalscale-suck/>If
you put "sheevaport reliability" in to a
google search you'll get an eye full.

   -- Bob


On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 8:38 AM, Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam at whitemice.org
> wrote:

> On Wed, 2011-01-26 at 08:34 -0500, Ben Rousch wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 12:06 AM, Bill Littlejohn <billl at mtd-inc.com>
> wrote:
> > >> We have a series of intercoms in the shop that emit a buzz to let
> > >> people know when it's time to start work, go to lunch, or go home. Our
> > >> current time clock software sets a schedule for those buzzers and
> > >> stores it on the time clock. The time clock then trips a relay (or
> > >> something like that) at the appropriate time. The inexpensive clocks
> > >> do not seem to have to capability to control such a buzzer system.
> > I've just started looking into plug computers, like the SheevePlug. A
> > Linux install on a wall wart, with a USB port.
> >  Maybe I can plug in one
> > of the previously-suggested USB relays and create a fairly simple
> > system. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SheevaPlug
>
> Everyone I've talked to who has used such devices reports a very high
> failure-rate [short life].
>
>
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