RE: Web control of DDARs

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

Kieran,

I'd be as happy with something that could be run command-line on a web
SERVER, say through basic CGI or even shelled out of Perl.......
Obviously, the command-line would need to have the IP address of the
receiver a field.

If it were a Win2k command line, that could run on my existing web
server.

If it were a Linux command line, then I could set up a spare PC running
Linux and Apache.

Mark Harrison
Head of Systems, eKingfisher


-----Original Message-----
From: Broadfoot, Kieran J [mailto:Kieran.Broadfoot@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 28 March 2002 09:34
To: 'ukha_d@xxxxxxx'
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Web control of DDARs


when you say command line you want to be able to run it from a web
browser
though and given the type of web browser you are talking about most/some
wont have any java capability.  Not sure I have the cycles for this but
a
java based control unit would be a better way to handle this.  What I
cant
do is handle the dell side because thats a lot of overhead so the
solution
would be a servlet based system which accepted a POST url from a web
browser
and translated that to commands to the dell unit.

i.e http://servlet.localdomain.com/play?unit=bedroom&tune=3aFF
is
translated
to the relevant displayserver commands and thrown over to the bedroom
rio.

Not sure if thats the kind of thing you are after?

Anyone think im on the right tracks here?

or one would imagine that if the protocol from rio to displayserver is a
simple socket protocol then you could probably right the whole lot in
asp/perl/cgi etc

kieran

-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Harrison [mailto:Mark.Harrison@xxxxxxx]

Kieran,

I'd much prefer a command line utility.

I have 5 DDARs/Rios, but only 1 Pronto.

I hope, long term, to have a wireless web brower in each room with a
DDAR. (Mix of webpads, iPaqs, old laptops...)

I love my Pronto, but where it really comes into its own is in the main
system where it controls everything. In the other rooms where the only
source is a DDAR, I'd rather a more general web-browsing device, and
don't need the "control anything by IR" that the Pronto excells
at.

Mark Harrison
Head of Systems, eKingfisher



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