Through a friend, I've been put in touch with a fellow in the Milwaukee area who's interested in developing software that communicates through an iPad or iPod port. He and I have discussed hooking that iPad port to an RS-232 cable (there are connectors that do that), and hooking the RS-232 cable to the port on the back of a TMCC or Legacy box. One could then control the TMCC portions of a layout via an iPad.
Another friend of mine is interested in working the iPad user interface, to make such controls natural and easy to use. Eventually, we might make the link wireless between the iPad and the TMCC, perhaps via an Arduino box to capture home wifi signals generated by the iPad, but that's a later step.
This fellow, an entrepreneur and engineer, is looking for someone in the Milwaukee area that is interested in trying out a basic linkage between an iPad and TMCC or Legacy -- seeing if sending a few commands to control switches, etc., would work. He has the appendix to the TMCC manual listing the 16-bit commands that TMCC accepts.
You don't have to have an iPad (or iPod or iPhone); he has one. What is needed is a layout with at least TMCC (or Legacy) to use as a testbed.
If you live in the Milwaukee area and would be interested in this experiment, please let me know and I'll put you both in touch. Thanks.
Bob Anderson (way out in California)
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