ON AIR

[Jeff Ramacher]

Humor me...  I would like to install an "ON AIR" sign in our AG room,
which could be manually turned on and off as needed.  I was
thinking it would be really cool if this could be triggered
automatically by vic or rat or both.  

I think there are two problems to solve.  First, interfacing the
computer(s) to the sign.  This would be fun with a programmable LED
marquee, but a simple on/off light with X10 controller would work too.

Second, vic and rat would need to alert an external process each time
the "transmit" button's state changes.  I guess this could be as simple
as updating a status file, although there are probably more 
efficient ways.

Does anyone know how hard it would be to add this functionality to
vic and rat?  Or, has anyone already done this?

Thanks :-)
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