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A bunch of folks worked on getting the touch panels working. Then another bunch of folks wanted to setup some sort of crazy control Noisebridge in case of a fire thing with it, [[SCADA]]. | A bunch of folks worked on getting the touch panels working. Then another bunch of folks wanted to setup some sort of crazy control Noisebridge in case of a fire thing with it, [[SCADA]]. | ||
The system that runs the touchpanel laptop (thinkpad) by the door (172.30.0.31) is required for opengate-www and opengate scripts to work. It is connected by parallel port to a relay which is linked into the door buzzer system. | |||
This laptop runs uses PXE boot and an image from a tftp server on [[Stallion]] to run{{verify}}. It will not boot without network and this server on the remote system. | |||
Currently the boot image for the panel starts up linux, runs Iceweasel full screen and points to a URL on [[Pony]]. There's a neat extensible interface that provides information and control regarding things we currently have in the space. | |||
==Requirements== | ==Requirements== | ||
Revision as of 12:36, 13 July 2010
A bunch of folks worked on getting the touch panels working. Then another bunch of folks wanted to setup some sort of crazy control Noisebridge in case of a fire thing with it, SCADA.
The system that runs the touchpanel laptop (thinkpad) by the door (172.30.0.31) is required for opengate-www and opengate scripts to work. It is connected by parallel port to a relay which is linked into the door buzzer system.
This laptop runs uses PXE boot and an image from a tftp server on Stallion to runTemplate:Verify. It will not boot without network and this server on the remote system.
Currently the boot image for the panel starts up linux, runs Iceweasel full screen and points to a URL on Pony. There's a neat extensible interface that provides information and control regarding things we currently have in the space.
Requirements
Fundamentals
- Setup a system where anyone can create apps and content for this system.
- "Don't suggest it and walk away, implement it instead!"
Back end
- Apache! Web apps!
- Everyone can write web pages!
Functionality
- You touch the touch panel and it clicks
- You drag on the touch panel and it moves the mouse
- When the thing boots it brings up a browser full screen
- After a time out the browser resets to a "main menu" of sorts
- Includes current time
- After a time out the box brings up some sort of interesting screen saver
- The browser is killed and restarted once every 3 hours to help with getting stuck in a weird state
- Possibly displaying the current time
- When navigating away from the main menu, there's a "home bar" at top
- Link to the menu
- Title of the current page
- Current time
Application
- Open the gate
- Control X10 lights
- Simplistic jukebox
- Currently playing on the main menu
- Control the mediacenter
- A "internet browser" interface
Information
- Local restaurants and menus for each
- Bus times
- Bart Times
- Listing of events at Noisebridge, or the new scheduler
- Weather
- With some info on the main menu
- Watch a hacker space, links to web cams for other spaces
Bugs
- Scroll bars are going to be tricky
- Navigating to pages outside of the panel site might lead to the browser getting into a weird state. The dumb fix is to kill and restart the browser session every once in a while (3 hours sounds good).
Installed Plugins
- Refresh2
- autohide
- Grab and Drag