Dear, dear all,

I'm trying to learn everything myself but i cant figure out the best way to do the following.

I had/have..:

A Perl script on a raspberry pi that checks a website on the INTERNET every 3 seconds for updates... On the website is a number, say 1 or 2.. The Perl script does something depending on the 1 or the 2.


Now i want to reduce traffic so i would like this:

I still have 1 PHP webpage, now with 1 button. If i push this button a 1 magically turns into a 2 or the other way around. when this button is pressed a want to send a "trigger" to my RPi so my perl script can take over.. In this way my Perl script does not have to check the website like 26400 times a day and it still reacts fast.



I was thinking about a tcp packet?? I can when i start my Perl script, send my IP-adres to the website and store it in a DB to use later. If this could be the best option i found some examples but they are all different and the only thing 1 need is sending 1 digit or letter.. just a trigger.



Now my knowledge of php is 'ok', my Perl experience is from the last week and my TCP/IP knowledge is almost 0.
And my english maybe could be better but i'm from the Netherlands, so sorry for that :D

In reply to trigger perl script from remote php script. by Levi Z

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