Live Status Proto: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 19:54, 8 November 2008

HacDC's Live Status Prototype

This is a mock-up demonstrating the two existing forms of output from the HacDC lab occupancy sensor.

At the moment, the system can report status to the world in two ways:

A text occupancy message suitable for inclusion on the Live Status page
Updates to a public Google Calendar account

Future Changes

The sensor is currently reporting its status via a extremely convoluted mechanism. As a result of this mechanism, I cannot run the live status system entirely within HacDC. In order to fix this problem and provide access to the real-time data for all takers, the wiki must be updated to:

Support a "nocache" extension, allowing the text occupancy message to display current rather than cached data
Configure the "include" extension to allow access to a single directory or file outside of the web root

Once these changes are complete, the system will be migrated entirely to the HacDC lab and realtime sensor and occupancy data can be made available for other projects.

Text Occupancy Message

NOTE - the message below is cached internally by the wiki and is guaranteed to be out of date

Public Google Calendar

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-== HacDC's Live Status ==
+== HacDC's Live Status Prototype ==
+This is a mock-up demonstrating the two existing forms of output from the HacDC lab occupancy sensor.
-<include src="http://dkeidki3.admetrcs.com/occupancy.html" nopre/><P>
+At the moment, the system can report status to the world in two ways:
-(NOTE - the message above is reset whenever the monitoring script restarts (often during development).  It will be correct once the system goes operational)
+* A text occupancy message suitable for inclusion on the Live Status page
+* Updates to a public Google Calendar account
+=== Future Changes ===
+The sensor is currently reporting its status via a extremely  convoluted mechanism.  As a result of this mechanism, I cannot run the live status system entirely within HacDC.  In order to fix this problem and provide access to the real-time data for all takers, the wiki must be updated to:
+* Support a "nocache" extension, allowing the text occupancy message to display current rather than cached data
+* Configure the "include" extension to allow access to a single directory or file outside of the web root
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+Once these changes are complete, the system will be migrated entirely to the HacDC lab and realtime sensor and occupancy data can be made available for other projects.
+=== Text Occupancy Message ===
+NOTE - the message below is cached internally by the wiki and is guaranteed to be out of date
+<include src="http://dkeidki3.admetrcs.com/occupancy.html" /><P>
+=== Public Google Calendar ===
 <include iframe src="http://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=hacdcdoorman%40gmail.com&ctz=America/New_York" width="1000px" height="1000px" />