[plug] Call me crazy...

[Willhart - Lawrie Abbott]

Adam Hewitt wrote:

>But does anyone with any significant electronics knowledge know if it would
>be possible to somehow connect a kettle to a serial port on a PC so that you
>could boil the kettle from your desktop and get some type of reading to tell
>you when its boiled??
>  
>
It is difficult because a kettle has a 3 pin connection whereas  your 
serial port has 9 or 25 ;)

Seriously tho, there are a million ways to remote control/monitor things 
... depending on how critical it is and how much you want to spend.
X10 devices looked good a few years ago when I was looking at this 
stuff. Maybe a visit to Linux home automation might give you some ideas.
http://linuxha.sourceforge.net/

Cheers
Lawrie Abbott
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