[Coco] remote controlled CoCo using CoCoNet

[Roger Taylor]

If anybody has ever imagined turning on the CoCo cassette relay, 
sampling data, playing sounds, showing live pictures, playing music, 
etc. from over the web, I can tell you how to do this using the 
existing CoCoNet 1.0 ROM (free download), CoCoNet Server software 
(free download) and either a bitbanger cable (I make these) or some 
form of a 6551 RS-232 Pak like my wireless pak or the Tandy stock pak.

I realize all the power possible using remote controlled 
applications, but this lets US normal folk actually do something like 
this for almost free instead of buying a $2,000 to $10,000 remote 
system.  Most of us here are experts with BASIC, and since the 
CoCoNet DOS is an enhanced copy of Disk BASIC, you already know how 
to write the CoCo side software.  The web side can be written in PHP 
and be something as simple asa page with checkboxes on it and a 
submit form for creating a text file in the script directory.  The 
CoCo would constantly or periodically read this text file using the 
SAVER command from BASIC.  And the rest can be figured out by any 
CoCo programmer here.

Using a wireless pak on the CoCo, the CoCo could even be out in the 
shop or yard and not near your PC.

I just wanted to throw another great idea out there on how to let our 
CoCo be a part of the modern world and technology.


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~ Roger Taylor