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Not sure this is the right place to post this, I want to be able to generate a email from a input, someone has mentioned Rasberry Pi, I have never used it but it does seem like it may be a option, so here is the scenario that I want to achieve:

 

Relay operates and generates signal.

 

The trigger generates a email that is forwarded to a pre set email.

 

Any ideas?

 

I suppose it all depends on the requirements and if the customer will allow you to develop / debug your solution on-site.

 

For an off-the-shelf installable solution, you can use a Galaxy G2-12 panel with low cost IP module.  This can be linked to £1/month monitoring which gives the advantage of accurate panel logging, battery backed PSU, polling, Web Interface and web configurable SMS / Voice / E-mail. It would also give future expansion capability for further signal monitoring from other outputs.

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You could always stick a prebuilt turnkey linux build as a VM for test purposes - of course there are security considerations with doing so in anything but an isolated network.

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We have Vmware VSphere and all the common distros are on there so I'll have a play with a pi and ubuntu with the GUI first and see how I get on.

 

Still feel a little uneasy about not being a Microsoft Monkey but it's time I took the plunge.

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Not sure this is the right place to post this, I want to be able to generate a email from a input, someone has mentioned Rasberry Pi, I have never used it but it does seem like it may be a option, so here is the scenario that I want to achieve:

 

Relay operates and generates signal.

 

The trigger generates a email that is forwarded to a pre set email.

 

Any ideas?

You could do worse than one of these

http://www.axis.com/products/cam_p8221/index.htm

 

It will send an email on alarm but not monitored so just like a speech dialler or text dialler in effect

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VSphere supports all the common distros but does not include them - the selection on there is for startup/shutdown and drive mounting compatibility.

 

The releases are easily sourced though and as others have said go for a GUI interface to start with, it really is not that bad and I can assure you that for every single Windows feature you find lacking in various Linux builds you will find another feature that you will think 'I wish Windows had this'.

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Also there is plenty of good Linux community support if you know where to look.

Could you post some links please? i would be very interested in them

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Am i missing something here? Webway ip or gprs or even Dualcom and a PSU.

What more do you need? Maybe a few bits depends what output the plant has. No need for a panel etc though.

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Could you post some links please? i would be very interested in them

 

Useful sites/pages I have bookmarked.

 

https://www.linuxquestions.org/

 

http://www.tuxfiles.org/linuxhelp/

 

http://www.computerhope.com/unix.htm

 

http://ubuntuforums.org/

 

Most big distro's have there own IRC channel on freenode.

Login with mIRC, Pidgin, Irssi or whatever and ask away someone will help.

 

https://www.freenode.net/

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