[AG-TECH] Triggering red light bulb with VIC - seriously!!!

[Osland, CD (Chris)]

Why vic?  The relevant channel is the audio.  Surely the 'right'
solution is some sort of signal out of rat when 'Talk' is set on,
and another when Talk is switched off.

my 0.02 $ worth

Chris

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Grzesiek Sedek [mailto:grzesiek at mi2.hr]
> Sent: 24 June 2003 23:56
> To: Douglas Baggett
> Cc: 'ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov'
> Subject: Re: [AG-TECH] Triggering red light bulb with VIC - 
> seriously!!!
> 
> 
> Hiya,
> Probably the easiest would be to synchronise tcpdump with vic 
> - once you
> see outgoing udp packets on the right port and destination 
> you are "on"
> Other way to dig a source and add little piece that would write temp
> file when "on"
> Cheers  
> 
> On Tue, 2003-06-24 at 16:40, Douglas Baggett wrote:
> > So,
> > 
> > We were brainstorming about why people think they can 
> "Chat" in the the 
> > background while other people are talking during a grid 
> session and my 
> > boss was wondering if there was a way to trigger a Red 
> light bulb (like 
> > in the old Radio studio days) when the vic transmit check box is 
> > selected to indicate we were "on air"
> > 
> > I was thinking that If there was a way to detect it, it 
> would be fairly 
> > easy to write some perl to trigger something home-made through the 
> > serial port (at least on linux).
> > 
> > Can anybody think of a way to detect "transmit" in ovic or uclvic?
> > 
> > thanks!
> > 
> > Doug B
> > CISE/NSF
> -- 
> Grzesiek Sedek <grzesiek at mi2.hr>
>