[time-nuts] Re: timing lab, remote control

[Christophe Huygens]

Hi,

check out 
https://store.ncd.io/product/ethernet-internet-contact-closure-remote-relay-controller-8-channel-solid-state-1-way/

This exists bidirectional also

br

Christophe


On 11/01/2024 15:16, Tom Van Baak via time-nuts wrote:
> 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
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