EventGhost

Would disabling then re-enabling it, in effect, reset the timer?

Using the information in the article (and articles like it) you may be able to hack something together in eventghost but I don't think it would be very expandable or very pretty but basically you could prove the concept.

As I understand it the chip squirts out an RFID's unique id down the serial ...

If you do want to continue with the fun of the DIY route, this article is by someone who did it with a cheap low-power embedded computer called an arduino

http://www.instructables.com/id/Arduino-RFID-Door-Lock/

"2. It has to function as a HID on the ION platform too, therefore it has to send some kind of information over LAN to the ION platform in order to function as an a HID.. Because I want to control MCE on the ION platform (like the arrow keys, space, enter and so on) this I'm a little worried about ...

That's demo's a nice piece of HTML!

Is there anywhere we can see the eventghost configuration that goes with it.

In my tests so far I have been sending eg.TriggerEnduringEvent("world") on buttondown and eg.EndLastEvent() on buttonup.

Unfortunately this results in a never-ending loop! I don't know ...

I want to control a volume control from a web interface but I don't want to have to repeatedly press the button, just press and hold as you would a normal remote control

On other systems I've started a "volumeup" event on "button down" and stopped it on "button release" how can I do this with event ...