RE: BabyCam

["Mark Harrison" <Mark.Harrison@xxxxxxx>]

Tony,

No, No, No!

I absolutely _don't_ want to open up any ports for external access. The
thing about IM is that the _client_ (ie the internal PC) opens the
connection ;-)

Mark Harrison
Head of Systems, eKingfisher


-----Original Message-----
From: BUTLER, Tony, FM [mailto:tony.butler@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 13 March 2002 16:29
To: 'ukha_d@xxxxxxx'
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] BabyCam


You don't need to use IM for this:
A simple VB/your favourite language) app acting as a TCP listener will
do.
Set it up on some obscure port, and just send text strings to it.

This has been done to great effect in an office I worked at where the
listener was set up on a user PC and the 'client' was set up on the
developer PC.
When the developer sent ":CD:OPEN" for example - guess what?
The CD Drawer opens!

Other similar things could be done such as confining the mouse to a
specific
are on the screen, starting the screensaver etc.

The software was removed though when the user complained to tech support
about weird PC behaviour after a particularly lengthy 'attack'.
They did get a new PC out of it though, so it was worth it in the end!

Anyway, automating other windows apps etc should also be possible this
way.
Basically, if you can write an app to run on your machine to control
another
app on your machine, then it is a doddle to convert this to work via TCP
rather than through pressing buttons or whatever.....

Obviously, some sort of security would be nice to stop other ppl
controlling
your PC too!


Tony

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Gordon [mailto:paul_gordon@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 13 March 2002 16:19
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] BabyCam
>
>
> Gadzooks!
>
> Shall I hold off on investigating doing this then? - not that
> I would have
> got round to it any time soon, but this is still on my list
> of things to do
> when I get time. - I got as far as downloading some
> documentation on the IM
> API....
>
> Will you be sharing the results?....
>
> Paul G.
>
>
>
> >From: "Mark Harrison" <Mark.Harrison@xxxxxxx>
> >Reply-To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> >To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
> >Subject: RE: [ukha_d] BabyCam
> >Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 16:02:08 -0000
> >
> >Haha, there's the clever part!
> >
> >One of the things "under development" is an _IM_ client
to do Windows
> >automation.
> >
> >By sending an IM to "my house" with a pre-defined syntax
and
> password, I
> >can make it automate things ;-)
> >
> >Idea by Paul Gordon, implementation by Mrs H. just as soon
> as she starts
> >maternity leave ;-)
> >
> >Mark Harrison
> >Head of Systems, eKingfisher
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> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Pedro de Oliveira [mailto:p.oliveira@xxxxxxx]
> >Sent: 13 March 2002 15:56
> >To: 'ukha_d@xxxxxxx'
> >Subject: RE: [ukha_d] BabyCam
> >
> >
> >Sounds like a good idea but how are you going to get netmeeting to
> >automatically accept a conversation??
> >
> >Pedro
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Mark Harrison [mailto:Mark.Harrison@xxxxxxx]
> >Sent: 13 March 2002 15:52
> >To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> >Subject: [ukha_d] BabyCam
> >
> >
> >Got my "UKHA BabyCam" from Henry's this lunchtime
> >(www.henrys.demon.co.uk)
> >
> >The shop is "an experience".
> >
> >The plan, BTW, is as follows:
> >
> >Phase 1: Monitoring from home
> >
> >- Camera into KAT5 TX
> >- Down CAT5 cabling (now fitted into nursery, thanks to Paul
> Wooton and
> >James Hoye)
> >- Back out into KATRX
> >- Into meridian switch (controlled by Pronto)
> >
> >Phase 2: Monitoring from outside
> >
> >- Wire the _video_ loop of the Meridian into a "TV-in"
card
> >- Allow the Webserver to configure HomeVision to do such switching
on
> >request
> >- Use NetMeeting to see nursery ;-)
> >
> >Regards,
> >
> >Marki
> >
> >
> >
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