Il 2006-01-03, Mark Thomas <mrt / thomaszone.com> ha scritto: > I dabble in home automation and am looking for a framework that would > allow me to monitor and react to serial port events. I'm a long-time > Perl user and if anyone is familiar with POE, that's the type of > framework I'm looking for (an Inversion-of-Control framework where I > have agents running in separate threads monitoring serial ports, > triggering events in the main code). I've perused RAA and seen a few > possibilities, but don't see anything recently maintained. Is there a > good match for the type of thing I'm looking to do? > > There are several new home automation technologies available now and > they don't yet have serial drivers, so I figure it would be a good time > to attempt the switch to Ruby. Besides, I'm moving to Ruby, VA next > month, so I figure I'd better start learning the language! :-) If you don't complain about the language Python community has Twisted Matrix - http://www.twistedmatrix.com - that seems just what are you looking for. -- Lawrence - http://www.oluyede.org/blog "Anyone can freely use whatever he wants but the light at the end of the tunnel for most of his problems is Python"