Trigger Action From A Serial Input ?

[Guest Daferra]

Hi all,

 

Just ran into this wonderfull software, damn it is good.

 

I want to try this, i've got a fire alarm installation with can give detailt alarm information on his serial port (realtime).

 

So my question is can i trigger an action when there is comming a spesific code out of the serial port.....

 

Otherwise do someone nows a solution to put that code in a database or file or whatever that VG can read. then i put a dailer into the fire alarm instalation en let him dail a nummer that connect to VG, VG trigger than a script what looks in de database to do his thing (dail email etc)

 

Ferdi

[SupportTeam]

Sounds like what you need is to have the alarm system dial a telephone number and send a few DTMF tones. Most alarm systems can do that and have that functionality built into it - no need for external hardware to make the dialout.

 

If your alarm only can advise of an event over a serial port then you would need to find something which can take this serial port input and make a call... you should speak with people who supplied the alarm system - they would probably know of a solution.

[Guest Daferra]

Thanx for the quick response,

 

I've cald the alarm firm, of that was posible.....

To bad, the can dail a number with a simple digit, but not the specific data that i want to have. i want to see in what zone the fire is zo i can call the people of that zone as first. The output is comming out of the serial port.

 

Now i ask a buddy of my to program a tool thats captures the serial output and place this in a database.

 

Is there a way to make a call when a specific datafield is written into the database....

[SupportTeam]

Is there a way to make a call when a specific datafield is written into the database....

Yes. You can add dial entries directly to the OutDialQue.mdb database.

(in VG's \data\ subdirectory)

See: http://www.voiceguide.com/vghelp/html/DialListInto.htm