[wlug_org] RE: Wellington iStations

[Dan Brough]

On Tue, 27 Apr 2004 12:18, Sam Cannell wrote:
> Hi Dan,
> 
> Thanks very much for that.  You sound fairly knowledgable on the subject
> - did you have some involvement in their production?
> 
> I was very impressed when I first saw them - I love the idea of being
> able to print out a map showing restaurant locations, etc.
> 

A couple of people have worked on the user interace,
most of it was done by another local (teijo holzer).

I did the backend content/management and remote admin and print server.

Its definitely not rocket science though, just a lot of work.

XFree86 has a Elo touch screen driver, so that was easy.

Printing tickets on a thermal ticket printer is just a case of reading the manual and writing stuff 
to /dev/lp 

The istation in the visitor centre also does free photo emails.
All of the istations have webcams which are used for security monitoring.

The "streamer" program from xawtv lets you grab a jpeg off the bttv capture card,
(or a supported USB webcam).
Mencoder can compress these into avi's.

The backend web application lets you view all the webcams, and also what is currently
on the screen of any istation.
Its used for managing the content of the istations, and runs inside apache tomcat on
a gentoo server.

We have both become big gentoo fans in the past couple of years.
Its definitely an ideal distro for people who like their linux "just so".

Thanks for your interest,
Any feedback is appreciated.

Dan.





> -----Original Message-----
> From: wlug_org-admin@lists.naos.co.nz
> [mailto:wlug_org-admin@lists.naos.co.nz] On Behalf Of Dan Brough
> Sent: Tuesday, 27 April 2004 12:06
> To: wlug_org@lists.naos.co.nz
> Subject: [wlug_org] RE: Wellington iStations
> 
> They werent developed by telecom, but by some local wellingtonians,
> (including the actual phone booths)
> 
> They have been out in the streets for almost a month now.
> Plenty of bugs to be ironed out, but so far we are more than pleased
> with our choice of OS :-)
> 
> cheers,
> Dan Brough.
> 
>