sensors fun..

[Andrey Chernov]

On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 06:20:26PM -0700, Julian Elischer wrote:
>> As you can guess from the first couple of lines, measured will also
>> answer as a HTTP server, so you can just point your browser at it,
>> and see what all the sensors record or manipulate actuators.
>> The protocol you see above, is trivally implemented in any language.
>> Creating a graphical "control panel" for stuff in for instance Tk
>> is trival.
> 
> actually I did almost EXACTLY that for Vicor, with tcl/tk and mbmon which 
> can do something similar to what you showed above. Every machine had mbmon 
> listening on port XXX and tcl/tk scanned them all and showed them 64 
> machines to the page.

The same can be achieved in more simpler way by just reading/writing DEVFS 
devices and not involves slow TCP/HTTP/tcl/etc path (some sensors may 
needs very fast reaction, perhaps realtime).

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