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Re: [AG-TECH] Doorbell for the grid?

Tom,

Yes, the beamline is a fairly noisy place. Speakers turned up loud enough for a user--who may be several feet away--to hear will likely also have lots of static--especially in our electrically noisy environment. My thoughts were to couple a tone--likely a sonalert of some sort which can be very distinctive even in noisy environments--with a strobe. It can be set up to "ring" occasionally rather than incessently.

I was just wondering if maybe this sort of issue has already been resolved for cases other than the trivial ones where leaving the "listen" button on is sufficient.

Brian

Thomas D. Uram wrote:


Well, if the audio is on at the beamline, the remote researchers could just begin talking
to the guys on the beamline, right? The beamline is likely a noisy environment, so
this may not be heard well, but just as much as some tone, I would think. Maybe I'm thinking
of the situation differently than you are; clarify as needed.

Tom



On 4/12/06 8:34 AM, Brian Tieman wrote:

Tom,

But only if you looking at your email...or have your email forwarded to a pager, etc...

We'd like to leave an AG room open and live at an APS beamline where people will be working on equipment and not necessarily looking at computers--or at least not the computers running the AG. If a collabarator wants checks in via the grid--the will see the guys working, but how do you remotely tap a guy on the shoulder to make him look up from his work to notice you? The phone works, of course, but a way to ring a bell and/or light up a strobe would be very usefull to us.

Thanks!

Brian

Tom Coffin wrote:


email notifications via the agscheduler work pretty well.

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At 02:07 PM 4/11/2006, Brian Tieman wrote:

Hi all,

We're hoping to use the AG in more of an "always on" environment for collaboration with users. We'd be doing this at an experimental facility where people will generally be paying more attention to the facility equipment than a random user who may pop in to collaborate, monitor, etc...And so we're looking for something like a doorbell or telephone ringer that would alert someone at the facility that a remote collaborator may wish to chat with them.

Has anyone implemented something like this? I can think of a couple of ways to go about it, but thought if anyone had a "standard" solution, we could just glom onto that.

Thanks!

Brian Tieman
Advanced Photon Source





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