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I have a device connected to my system via RS232. If i want to read out the status then i request it via a serial command. All in all it's working but the time lag is just to much to get it working comfortable. Now has this device also a status port on the back. Via an IO controller you can get a state request faster. I am not that familiar with IO controllers and how to use them with HS. The only thing i can think of is using an Arduino but that one you still read via the com port so according me there wouldn't be any speed profit there. My parallel port is already in use so that isn't an option also.
So does anyone have a suggestion what to use?

I use Arduino with Greigs script for I/O http://board.homeseer.com/showthread.php?t=157239

That setup has instant update in Homeseer.

Thanks for bringing this one up.,

A few months back i saw this thread but there was no script yet. It seems that it looks like a gem.

I hope there will be a ethernet version soon...

I have been beta testing, hence I have had it for a while.

I am afraid ethernet can take a while, he have tried for some time to make stable ethernet without luck.

Regards
Morten

AshaiRey, since you’re now using an IO for requesting the status packet, just send a high or an active-low pulse towards the device and since you’ll already have a serial receiving interrupt waiting for the packet, your device will automatically register the incoming packet. There is however a few consideration that you need to take in account for speeding up your communication such the baud rate of communication. If the status packet is large enough, you’ll have to use a higher baud rate for quicker communication.