I hate being the practical one, but take the time & money you'd spend on that project and install a backup sump pump. You'll be far happier with a dry basement than knowing you have a wet one. -Marc On 5/15/06, Mike Leo <mleo963@yahoo.com> wrote:
NOTE: Cut and pasted from a web post of mine...i just didn't want to re-write it...
Since my arc isn't built yet, and we have recieved 27 feet of rain here in New England in the past 7 days, my basement flooded again.
The pump went out sometime overnight and i had 3-4 inches of water in my basement/computer room this morning.
I am smart enough, however, to have everything up off the floor (except my sun workstation!), so nothing was damaged but the carpet.
So i was thinking today, why not put an H2O sensor in and have one of the dozen or so computers page/email me when there is water present?
But......I am not a programmer, nor do I have any idea how to interface software with a hardware sensor (that I can't actually find at present on the web).
So the quetion is, where do I begin?
A quick google search finds alarm sensors, but no interface to a computer serial port...they just start screaming if they get wet.
Even if i did find one, where do I start with such a thing, to interface with an OS to trigger an action?
Does someone know of a (cheap) product to do this?
Not only does is seem like a practical project for the house, I'm sure it will be a good learning experiance as well.
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