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I believe there are little boxes available...


The picoWeb server - but I'm not sure whether it has any inputs/outputs. I believe the source and schematics are available.

Microchip has a TCP/IP stack for its PIC controllers, so you could re-invent the picoWeb wheel. It would be cool to use the new power-over-Ethernet standard so that the doorbell only needs cat5 (of course, you could add this to the picoWeb design).
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Michael
Ex-owner of stolen empeg #030102741