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. >> >> _________________________________________ >> 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 >> >> >> >> ___________________________________________________________ >> Tom Coffin .......................... [email protected] >> >> NCSA-ACCESS cel: 703-477-5948 >> 901 North Stuart Street, #800 tel: 703-248-0105 >> Arlington, Virginia 22203 fax: 703-248-0100 >> >> _________________________ http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/~tcoffin >> > >
