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    Right. You can buy a smaller number for even less. The instructable
    below shows how to control it with a Raspberry Pi.<br>
    <br>
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href="https://www.instructables.com/id/Control-Sonoff-From-Raspberry-Pi/">https://www.instructables.com/id/Control-Sonoff-From-Raspberry-Pi/</a><br>
    <br>
    But you're still going to need invention, and that's the magic that
    bridges between what your packet program is doing on the Raspberry
    Pi and the actions necessary to invoke the program to turn on the
    Sonoff. You won't find that at Amazon Prime, but if you come to the
    meeting tomorrow somebody might be able to find out more about how
    the packet radio code works and suggest an approach. <br>
    <br>
    -Pete<br>
    <br>
    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 11/11/18 7:40 PM, Tadd Torborg via
      TriEmbed wrote:<br>
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        space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hmm.. Very
        pretty.   Perhaps wishful thinking, but I was looking for
        something closer to $50 that didn’t require new invention.  </div>
      <div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode:
        space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">I like what you
        came up with.  Nice shopping list too. </div>
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      <div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode:
        space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Have you ever
        seen a Sonoff WiFi Switch ?   Amazon has 6 of these for $65.  </div>
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          <span style="font-size: 12px;" class="">Tadd / KA2DEW</span><br
            style="font-size: 12px;" class="">
          <span style="font-size: 12px;" class=""><a
              href="mailto:tadd@mac.com" class="" moz-do-not-send="true">tadd@mac.com</a></span><br
            style="font-size: 12px;" class="">
          <span style="font-size: 12px;" class="">Raleigh NC  FM05pv</span><br
            style="font-size: 12px;" class="">
          <br style="font-size: 12px;" class="">
          <b style="font-size: 12px;" class="">“Packet networking over
            ham radio": </b><b style="font-size: 12px;" class=""><font
              class="" color="#0056d6"><a
                href="http://tarpn.net/t/packet_radio_networking.html"
                class="" moz-do-not-send="true">http://tarpn.net/t/packet_radio_networking.html</a></font></b><br
            style="font-size: 12px;" class="">
          <b style="font-size: 12px;" class="">Local Raleigh ham radio
            info: </b><b style="font-size: 12px;" class=""><font
              class="" color="#0056d6"><a href="http://torborg.com/a"
                class="" moz-do-not-send="true">http://torborg.com/a</a></font></b><br
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              font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing:
              normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align:
              -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none;
              white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;
              -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;
              -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break:
              after-white-space;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(68,
                68, 68); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size:
                small; line-height: 16px; orphans: auto; widows: auto;
                background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">"When
                you don't know what you're doing, you </span><span
                style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: arial,
                sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: 16px;
                orphans: auto; widows: auto; background-color: rgb(255,
                255, 255);" class="">might as well do it quickly"   -
                Jase Robertson</span></div>
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              <div class="">On Nov 11, 2018, at 2:52 PM, Brian
                Chamberlain <<a href="mailto:blchamberlain@gmail.com"
                  class="" moz-do-not-send="true">blchamberlain@gmail.com</a>>
                wrote:</div>
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                  <div dir="auto" class="">Hey Tadd,</div>
                </div>
                <div dir="auto" class="">If you’re talking 10 years ago
                  time frame I’m guessing you’re referring to the
                  AmbientOrb. It was a device from an MIT group/project
                  that signaled the state of the weather, stock markets,
                  etc... Here’s an article about that device.</div>
                <div dir="auto" class=""><br class="">
                  <div dir="auto" class=""><a
href="http://www.nbcnews.com/id/4758931/ns/technology_and_science-tech_and_gadgets/t/new-technology-relies-human-visual-system/"
                      class="" moz-do-not-send="true">http://www.nbcnews.com/id/4758931/ns/technology_and_science-tech_and_gadgets/t/new-technology-relies-human-visual-system/</a></div>
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                  <div dir="auto" class="">There have been many of these
                    types of devices launched as
                    products/kickstarters/DIY projects since then, in
                    various incarnations. I’m sure you can find examples
                    on <a href="http://Hackster.io" class=""
                      moz-do-not-send="true">Hackster.io</a>. Here’s one
                    I built: 
                    <div class=""><a
href="https://www.hackster.io/breakpointer/ambient-web-connected-color-orb-91b9fd"
                        class="" moz-do-not-send="true">https://www.hackster.io/breakpointer/ambient-web-connected-color-orb-91b9fd</a></div>
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                  <div dir="auto" class=""><br class="">
                  </div>
                  <div dir="auto" class="">Also, here’s a more complete
                    Rpi based tutorial: 
                    <div class=""><a
href="https://www.raspberrypi.org/magpi/cheerlights-orb-a-node-red-tutorial/"
                        class="" moz-do-not-send="true">https://www.raspberrypi.org/magpi/cheerlights-orb-a-node-red-tutorial/</a></div>
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                  <div dir="auto" class=""><br class="">
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                  <div dir="auto" class="">The neopixel from Adafruit is
                    great for this type of thing. 
                    <div class=""><a
                        href="https://learn.adafruit.com/neopixels-on-raspberry-pi/overview"
                        class="" moz-do-not-send="true">https://learn.adafruit.com/neopixels-on-raspberry-pi/overview</a></div>
                    <div dir="auto" class=""><br class="">
                    </div>
                    <div dir="auto" class="">Hope this helps.</div>
                    <div dir="auto" class="">Cheers!</div>
                  </div>
                  <div dir="auto" class=""><br class="">
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                    <div dir="ltr" class="">On Sun, Nov 11, 2018 at 9:32
                      AM Tadd Torborg via TriEmbed <<a
                        href="mailto:triembed@triembed.org" class=""
                        moz-do-not-send="true">triembed@triembed.org</a>>
                      wrote:<br class="">
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                        class="">Once upon a time, possibly 10 years
                        ago, I remember a device which looked like a
                        light fixture that sat on a desk.  It lit up in
                        color, after it found some token or cue on the
                        Internet.  You could use it to show a weather
                        alert, or i a certain web page did or did not
                        responded to pings. 
                        <div class="">I never bought one.  Now I need it
                          for a ham radio project. </div>
                        <div class=""><br class="">
                        </div>
                        <div class="">What I want to do is have a
                          Raspberry PI that is doing ham radio stuff
                          (TARPN network communications, in this case)
                          and have a light, possibly a blinking LED, in
                          the living room of my house, that would
                          indicate a message has been received via the
                          ham radio TARPN network.  The Raspberry PI can
                          have a file that is present or missing, or
                          filled with some value or another, and the
                          blinking light needs to use FTP or Telnet via
                          WiFi to the Raspberry PI and query the file. 
                          Alternatively I could have the Raspberry PI
                          issue a telnet message to turn the light on or
                          off.  </div>
                        <div class=""><br class="">
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                        <div class="">Something like this already
                          exists.  Does anybody know where to get one?  </div>
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                        <div class="">Thanks!</div>
                        <div class="">   Tadd</div>
                        <div class=""><br class="">
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                        <div class="">Tadd / KA2DEW</div>
                        <div class=""><a href="http://tarpn.net/"
                            target="_blank" class=""
                            moz-do-not-send="true">http://tarpn.net</a></div>
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