[AG-TECH] New Gentner Software
Robert Olson
olson at mcs.anl.gov
Thu Jul 26 18:56:22 CDT 2001
At 09:52 AM 7/27/2001 +1000, Markus Buchhorn wrote:
>Well, if we're adding wishes to this list... :-)
>
>Allow this control application to run over the network, so that one
>operator can manage multiple nodes, or a remote operator can manage a
>given node.
Oh definitely -- so that I can also control the node from my laptop while
sitting on the couch :-)
>At first blush, a web browser would make a very nice harness for this.
>Perhaps implement as Apache modules? (apologies to Jay ;-) ). Save you
>having to develop at both ends of the network pipe (as with e.g. a Java
>applet).
I'm thinking the architectecture would have some number of agents connected
to the actual devices (gentner, PTZ camera, remote-controllable apps) that
speak a common interface (XMLRPC maybe) via some published API. The API
would include mechanisms for authorization and authentication so that
control would be exported only to those a site wanted to allow control.
Given that web servers then can speak XMLRPC (there exist client libs for
PHP & perl/mod_perl...) an apache backend could speak to those. A custom
client could also be built, speaking to the same XMLRPC agents.
>We could also pick up some of the hacks that allow you to drive the
>various PTZ cameras through a web page. It could also hook into
>monitoring/logging systems...
Yup. The LBL folks already have a daemon that will run the Canon & Sony ptz
cameras. It doesn't speak XMLRPC, but it could be modified to do so or a
translation agent built.
--bob
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