[AG-TECH] LBL Camera Control Software

Allan Spale aspale at evl.uic.edu
Fri Jul 27 12:34:53 CDT 2001


Hi,

In reference to the camera control, do you have some URL where I could
download the software and documentation for camera controls or is it not
publicly available?


Allan
EVL/UIC 
node-op


On Thu, 26 Jul 2001, Robert Olson wrote:

> 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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