Hi All,
Is it possible to set alerts to play sound on hobbit when the colour changes to red, yellow?
Regards,
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On Monday 27 August 2007, Sello Tlabela (SD) wrote:
Is it possible to set alerts to play sound on hobbit when the colour changes to red, yellow?
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/02/09/1325225
:)
Stef
I've had a system doing this :D
I set up an ESD server (Enlightened Sound Daemon) where I was wanting the sound to be played, then set up an alert script to play the sound to it.
The script was something like:
#!/bin/bash
export ESPEAKER=10.2.0.81
esdplay /usr/local/hobbit/server/ext/alerts/somethingwrong.wav
With 10.2.0.81 being the location of the ESD server.
For setup of the server, take a look at:
http://www.tux.org/~ricdude/EsounD.html
It's probably installed though.
I started it with something like: esd -promiscuous -tcp -public
Make sure to actually turn the sound on, using one of the mixers.
Steve Anderson
From: Sello Tlabela (SD) [mailto:TlabelSD at telkom.co.za] Sent: 27 August 2007 08:44 To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: [hobbit] sounds on hobbit alerts
Hi All,
Is it possible to set alerts to play sound on hobbit when the colour changes to red, yellow?
Regards,
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From: Sello Tlabela (SD) [mailto:TlabelSD at telkom.co.za] Sent: Monday, August 27, 2007 2:44 AM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: [hobbit] sounds on hobbit alerts
Hi All,
Is it possible to set alerts to play sound on hobbit when the colour changes to red, yellow?
I have done this in the past using a perl wrapper watching the allevents file.
Trent
Regards,
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On 8/27/07, Sello Tlabela (SD) <TlabelSD at telkom.co.za> wrote:
Hi All,
Is it possible to set alerts to play sound on hobbit when the colour changes to red, yellow?
Does the old "bbtray" program work with Hobbit, or is it too specific to Big Brother??
Ralph Mitchell
I use bbtray with hobbit, so far it works. To choose what alarms to sound on I use the NK-view page.
Regards Lars ----- Original Message ----- From: Ralph Mitchell To: hobbit at hswn.dk Sent: Monday, August 27, 2007 4:35 PM Subject: Re: [hobbit] sounds on hobbit alerts
On 8/27/07, Sello Tlabela (SD) <TlabelSD at telkom.co.za> wrote: Hi All,
Is it possible to set alerts to play sound on hobbit when the colour changes to red, yellow?Does the old "bbtray" program work with Hobbit, or is it too specific to Big Brother??
Ralph Mitchell
We use bbtray with Hobbit as well. Works fine. However, you might want to replace the default of Homer Simpson yelling an expletive (RED) with something more appropriate.
In our environment, we use Tom Hanks' line for "Apollo 13" - "Houston, we have a problem" - to indicate RED status; and the "all systems functioning normally" computer tag line from the original Star Trek TV series to indicate return to GREEN status. Yes, it's true. I am an uber-geek.
Dean Casey
From: Lars Ebeling [mailto:lars.ebeling at leopg9.no-ip.org] Sent: Monday, August 27, 2007 11:05 AM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] sounds on hobbit alerts
I use bbtray with hobbit, so far it works. To choose what alarms to sound on I use the NK-view page.
Regards
Lars
----- Original Message -----
From: Ralph Mitchell <mailto:ralphmitchell at gmail.com>
To: hobbit at hswn.dk
Sent: Monday, August 27, 2007 4:35 PM
Subject: Re: [hobbit] sounds on hobbit alerts
On 8/27/07, Sello Tlabela (SD) <TlabelSD at telkom.co.za> wrote:
Hi All,
Is it possible to set alerts to play sound on hobbitwhen the colour changes to red, yellow?
Does the old "bbtray" program work with Hobbit, or is it toospecific to Big Brother??
Ralph Mitchell
On Mon, 2007-08-27 at 11:59 -0400, Dean Casey wrote:
We use bbtray with Hobbit as well. Works fine. However, you might want to replace the default of Homer Simpson yelling an expletive (RED) with something more appropriate.
In our environment, we use Tom Hanks’ line for “Apollo 13” – “Houston, we have a problem” – to indicate RED status; and the “all systems functioning normally” computer tag line from the original Star Trek TV series to indicate return to GREEN status. Yes, it’s true. I am an uber-geek.
We use the sounds from the HAL 9000, RED - "I just picked up a fault" YELLOW - "One moment please." GREEN - "I feel much better now, I really do" PURPLE - "Im sorry for the delay"
Again, I wrapped a perl script around the allevents log that way we could get the alerts to sound immediately when Big Brother (now Hobbit) picked up the problem and didnt have to wait for the browser to refresh. Also with this script watching the allevent log it would display each event line in the appropriate color, again this was so the helpdesk folks could see the alert as it happened and not have to wait for the browser or bbdisplay to update. All they had to do is listen and look and the Command wall for the alerts.
Trent
Trent
Dean Casey
From: Lars Ebeling [mailto:lars.ebeling at leopg9.no-ip.org] Sent: Monday, August 27, 2007 11:05 AM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] sounds on hobbit alerts
I use bbtray with hobbit, so far it works. To choose what alarms to sound on I use the NK-view page.
Regards
Lars
----- Original Message ----- From: Ralph Mitchell To: hobbit at hswn.dk Sent: Monday, August 27, 2007 4:35 PM Subject: Re: [hobbit] sounds on hobbit alerts On 8/27/07, Sello Tlabela (SD) <TlabelSD at telkom.co.za> wrote: Hi All, Is it possible to set alerts to play sound on hobbit when the colour changes to red, yellow? Does the old "bbtray" program work with Hobbit, or is it too specific to Big Brother?? Ralph Mitchell
Is there a Debian deb install package for Hobbit 4.2 ?
Thanks, Ger.
I bow to your superior geek quotient. HAL9000, very cool indeed.
Dean Casey
-----Original Message----- From: Trent Melcher [mailto:trent.melcher at sitel.com] Sent: Monday, August 27, 2007 12:50 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: RE: [hobbit] sounds on hobbit alerts
On Mon, 2007-08-27 at 11:59 -0400, Dean Casey wrote:
We use bbtray with Hobbit as well. Works fine. However, you might want to replace the default of Homer Simpson yelling an expletive (RED) with something more appropriate.
In our environment, we use Tom Hanks' line for "Apollo 13" - "Houston, we have a problem" - to indicate RED status; and the "all systems functioning normally" computer tag line from the original Star Trek TV series to indicate return to GREEN status. Yes, it's true. I am an uber-geek.
We use the sounds from the HAL 9000, RED - "I just picked up a fault" YELLOW - "One moment please." GREEN - "I feel much better now, I really do" PURPLE - "Im sorry for the delay"
Again, I wrapped a perl script around the allevents log that way we could get the alerts to sound immediately when Big Brother (now Hobbit) picked up the problem and didnt have to wait for the browser to refresh. Also with this script watching the allevent log it would display each event line in the appropriate color, again this was so the helpdesk folks could see the alert as it happened and not have to wait for the browser or bbdisplay to update. All they had to do is listen and look and the Command wall for the alerts.
Trent
Trent
Dean Casey
From: Lars Ebeling [mailto:lars.ebeling at leopg9.no-ip.org] Sent: Monday, August 27, 2007 11:05 AM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] sounds on hobbit alerts
I use bbtray with hobbit, so far it works. To choose what alarms to sound on I use the NK-view page.
Regards
Lars
----- Original Message ----- From: Ralph Mitchell To: hobbit at hswn.dk Sent: Monday, August 27, 2007 4:35 PM Subject: Re: [hobbit] sounds on hobbit alerts On 8/27/07, Sello Tlabela (SD) <TlabelSD at telkom.co.za> wrote: Hi All, Is it possible to set alerts to play sound on hobbit when the colour changes to red, yellow? Does the old "bbtray" program work with Hobbit, or is it too specific to Big Brother?? Ralph Mitchell
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On Mon, August 27, 2007 03:43, Sello Tlabela (SD) wrote:
Is it possible to set alerts to play sound on hobbit when the colour changes to red, yellow?
Sure. I'm presuming you want the sound in the browser, not on the server. In web/bb_header, insert after the line beginning "<BODY BGCOLOR" a line like: <EMBED SRC="&BBBACKGROUND.wav" AUTOSTART="True" HIDDEN="True" LOOP= "false">
Put red.wav, green.wav, purple.wav, and yellow.wav in the Hobbit www directory.
I use .wav as an example only. The browser, of course, must have a sound plug-in that handles the type sound file used or it will do something like put up a "Plug in needed" bar. Firefox 2.0 on XP will foreground every time the page reloads (on my office machine, anyway), IE 6 will not. YMMV. Offer void where prohibited. Don't take any wooden cigars.
participants (9)
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dcasey＠pathfire.com
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ger＠fwi.ie
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hobbit＠epperson.homelinux.net
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lars.ebeling＠leopg9.no-ip.org
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ralphmitchell＠gmail.com
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stef.coene＠docum.org
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Steve.Anderson＠bipsolutions.com
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TlabelSD＠telkom.co.za
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trent.melcher＠sitel.com