# Glide to communicate with a Windows program?

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**Created:** [April 19, 2023, 7:39pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/glide-to-communicate-with-a-windows-program/60737 "2023-04-19T19:39:56Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 20, 2023, 7:51pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/glide-to-communicate-with-a-windows-program/60737/5 "2023-04-20T19:51:16Z")

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Godaften Gustavo,

Some are controlled by a relay, some by RS485, some by SSH, some by a MFG card in the PC, some by MQTT – it all depends.

So, its needs to be **my program** (lets name it the: Service program) that receives the input, and from there i ‘distribute’ out the needed action. Not the individual machine.

It could be as simple as 1,0 for machine 1 off, 1,100 full on/100%, 1,50 for % (if it’s a machine that handle more than just on/off), so a string of ‘`1,0 2,0, 3,1 4,75`’ would be just fine - of cause in JSON format.

It’s a very similar idea, as what you show on [https://community.glideapps.com/t/glide-with-iot-iiot-industrial-iot-and-domotic-applications/22698](https://community.glideapps.com/t/glide-with-iot-iiot-industrial-iot-and-domotic-applications/22698)  
I see you use Make/Integromat, but you can’t get the time down under 1 min. I was considering investigating them, after Zapier.  
But I need to have a response time of about 10-15 sec. however there will only be issued out 20-60 commands/actions a day.

Is GS-script, like a macro/script running on the google sheet?

I was considering a similar approach, where my Service program would be scanning the Excel file for changes, then act accordingly.

I’m not sure what kind of response time I would get, with that approach.

What we truly miss is an official Glideapp IoT gateway / Broker, something you’ll connect directly to your glide application, which then communicated with your ‘Service program’ at the corporate/factory LAN  
A Glide-MQTT broker would be brilliant, with a closed proprietary protocol from glide.pages \<\> my.local.Glide.MQTT broker.  
Imagine the stuff you then could make, the sky would be the limit 😊

Mvh Otto

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