[AG-TECH] LBL Camera Control Software

[Deb Agarwal]

Allen,

The camera control software is available at
http://www-itg.lbl.gov/mbone/remote/
It is available as source and binary.  The control consists of a server
that controls the cameras and a client that runs on the remote hosts
and issues the commands.  The current client is a simple java implementation.
The commands between the client and server use a simple ASCII format
and are sent using UDP.  The format is documented to allow anyone to
build a client very easily and control the cameras.  If someone would like
to work with us to integrate the camera control into the AGiB, we would
be happy to help.

Deb
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Deb Agarwal                          e-mail:DAAgarwal at lbl.gov
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Lawrence Berkeley National Lab       URL: http://www-itg.lbl.gov/~deba
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Allan Spale wrote:
> 
> 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