[AG-TECH] Doorbell for the grid?
monika.k.rabarison at ccaix.jsums.edu
monika.k.rabarison at ccaix.jsums.edu
Wed Apr 12 08:47:05 CDT 2006
Brian,
If the guy is in his AG room, and the other guy sees him, in
other words both guys have their AG on, so why not just have
the "Listen" on, so that the other guy does not have to tap
any shoulder, he just need to say what he wants.
My 2 cents,
Monika
> Tom,
>
> But only if you looking at your email...or have your email
> forwarded to a pager, etc...
>
> We'd like to leave an AG room open and live at an APS
> beamline where people will be working on equipment and
> not necessarily looking at computers--or at least not the
> computers running the AG. If a collabarator wants checks
> in via the grid--the will see the guys working, but how
> do you remotely tap a guy on the shoulder to make him
> look up from his work to notice you? The phone works, of
> course, but a way to ring a bell and/or light up a strobe
> would be very usefull to us.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Brian
>
> Tom Coffin wrote:
>
> >
> > email notifications via the agscheduler work pretty
> well. >
> > _________________________________________
> > At 02:07 PM 4/11/2006, Brian Tieman wrote:
> >
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> We're hoping to use the AG in more of an "always on"
> environment for >> collaboration with users. We'd be
> doing this at an experimental >> facility where people
> will generally be paying more attention to the >>
> facility equipment than a random user who may pop in to
> collaborate, >> monitor, etc...And so we're looking for
> something like a doorbell or >> telephone ringer that
> would alert someone at the facility that a >> remote
> collaborator may wish to chat with them. >>
> >> Has anyone implemented something like this? I can
> think of a couple >> of ways to go about it, but thought
> if anyone had a "standard" >> solution, we could just
> glom onto that. >>
> >> Thanks!
> >>
> >> Brian Tieman
> >> Advanced Photon Source
> >
> >
> >
> >
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