Re: Has anyone interfaced an external system example, sounding a buzzer and turning on a light.

Mike, you have a program with sockets ability talk to a switch like posted
earlier (
http://www.controlbyweb.com/webrelay-quad/webrelay-quad_users_manual.pdf).

On the terminal, they press a Function key to turn it on sending a code to
the switch, then press a key to turn off, sending the OFF code. Since it
is under program control, you have the stats you need. Just needs to be
driven from a native program on the 400. The large monitor can be driven
by another native program another program controlled from a data queue that
displays alternating screens, or not...

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On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 7:36 PM, Mike Cunningham <mike.cunningham@xxxxxxx>
wrote:

Interesting that this thread just started as I was recently asked for
something similar but maybe a little more complex.
I was asked if we could connect a button (light a push button switch) to
our system and then have the button push turn on a light and make an image
blink on a large monitor and log the station where the button was pressed
with a timestamp. Then do the reverse when the button was pressed again to
turn off the light stop the blinking image and log the timestamp. Calculate
the time difference and report on the length of time the light was on and
at what station.