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

[Mike Ingle]

I remember looking at some serdes link ICs in the early 1990s, but I have
forgotten their name, and they are probably obsolete now.  A related search
came up with:
https://eu.mouser.com/datasheet/2/609/MAX9205_MAX9207-3131009.pdf
It looks like you could buy a couple eval boards from mouser. The price
hurts but...

good luck. --mike

On Thu, Jan 11, 2024 at 3:18 PM Tom Van Baak via time-nuts <
time-nuts at lists.febo.com> 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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