[time-nuts] timing lab, remote control

[Tom Van Baak]

There was a posting from Skip a while ago that didn't come through. See 
below for his request. Me too.

In my case, I have an area at home you could call my working bench. I 
also have small room, less accessible, where I keep my best clocks with 
as little human interference as possible. I'd like to improve its remote 
monitoring and control over ethernet.

So the question is, does anyone make a black box that acts as a 
transparent latch or GPIO? I'd like 8 or 16 bits at my bench that when 
changed turn into bits in the remote lab. Ideally no setup, no protocol, 
no commands, no software, no operating system, no bugs; just two boxes 
with N pins on each end and changes are reflected from one to the other 
over LAN. TTL/CMOS level is fine. Some latency is ok.

I'm not looking for yet another WiFi, Arduino/LAN, or R-Pi project, but 
rather a turn-key solution that just works. I spent a significant amount 
of time on the web, thinking this would be a trivial search, but I came 
up empty.

Thanks,
/tvb

 > I'm looking for a box that has an Ethernet port on one side and some 
number or I/O
 > (could be from 1 to n) on the other.  When two of these boxes are paired
 > (by entering their respective IP addresses), the state of an input on 
one box is
 > reflected in the output of the other box (and vice versa).
 >
 > An example would be if I had a switch hooked to the input of one box, 
its state would
 > be reflected in the output of the paired box, such as controlling a 
motor remotely.
 >
 > Any ideas?  Perhaps there might be a business opportunity here if it 
doesn't exist.
 > Thanks for the time,
 > Skip Withrow