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I have a concept that may or may not work. I do not have the computer skills, but it seems possible:
Whelen SC Programmer has a simulation feature allowing a PC to activate the pre-selected functions for testing. These are done one at a time.
As I understand it, and the reports output shows, the program sends a line of code that activates the functions.
Does anyone have a program, or understand how to make one, that would allow an HTML-like computer interface to activate pre-selected programmed "switches" much like an MPC01 does? I have all the downstream hardware.
The ultimate end result would be this:
A graphic picture of my display is embedded with links. Click on the link, it shows information about that particular light, and that particular light (real, hanging on the wall) activates as programmed when you click on some additional link: end lamps, rotate, etc.
The interface may show information like a web page would, too. In other words, a web page that when you click on a link doesn't show you just a picture, it activates a real live function. I can get the rest done, power and switching and such, just not the programmable computer-to-switch. Think web page builder, but for SC.
I think of a museum display, model train layout, or the like. This PC display would provide much more information, and be connected via one twisted pair, instead of those museum like mounted boards.
Commodore 64 had something like this... it just clicked over a relay in a box connected to ground power, via input or even timed. That and a power supply ran a FireBall on demand. I just want to add more, and need a PC program to run it.
If that all makes sense, and you have an idea, please send it this way. If I could get into the SC Programmer code, I might be able to reverse engineer this myself.
Thanks for reading.
Whelen SC Programmer has a simulation feature allowing a PC to activate the pre-selected functions for testing. These are done one at a time.
As I understand it, and the reports output shows, the program sends a line of code that activates the functions.
Does anyone have a program, or understand how to make one, that would allow an HTML-like computer interface to activate pre-selected programmed "switches" much like an MPC01 does? I have all the downstream hardware.
The ultimate end result would be this:
A graphic picture of my display is embedded with links. Click on the link, it shows information about that particular light, and that particular light (real, hanging on the wall) activates as programmed when you click on some additional link: end lamps, rotate, etc.
The interface may show information like a web page would, too. In other words, a web page that when you click on a link doesn't show you just a picture, it activates a real live function. I can get the rest done, power and switching and such, just not the programmable computer-to-switch. Think web page builder, but for SC.
I think of a museum display, model train layout, or the like. This PC display would provide much more information, and be connected via one twisted pair, instead of those museum like mounted boards.
Commodore 64 had something like this... it just clicked over a relay in a box connected to ground power, via input or even timed. That and a power supply ran a FireBall on demand. I just want to add more, and need a PC program to run it.
If that all makes sense, and you have an idea, please send it this way. If I could get into the SC Programmer code, I might be able to reverse engineer this myself.
Thanks for reading.