Station Monitoring

[techman83]

I just came across this project, I need to read up more about it. I've been involved with AV for LCA2014 and wondering what you were doing regarding the end points.

We used this (Disclaimer, I wrote a fair chunk of it):
https://github.com/lukejohnosmahi/eventstreamr

I'm wondering how that would fit in with your stack or if it's a complete duplication (I note your commits go back a long way)?

[yoe]

Hi Leon,

On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 04:02:42AM -0800, Leon Wright wrote:

I just came across this project, I need to read up more about it. I've
been involved with AV for LCA2014 and wondering what you were doing
regarding the end points.

We're not very detailed on the streaming for this year yet.

Last year, we used flumotion, as we were sponsored by the Flumotion
company, and they took care of everything. Unfortunately, that
sponsorship deal isn't turning out this year, so we'll have to figure
out something else.

There are some tentative plans, but for now we're focusing on getting
recordings working well; streaming might happen, but no promises.

We used this (Disclaimer, I wrote a fair chunk of it):
[1]https://github.com/lukejohnosmahi/eventstreamr

I'm wondering how that would fit in with your stack or if it's a
complete duplication (I note your commits go back a long way)?

That is a merge from the debconf video team. There is some overlap
between that team and the FOSDEM one.

While I don't have the time to go into much detail on how we do things
right now (as I'm sure you'll understand), I am interested in an
exchange of ideas between LCA and FOSDEM. In fact, I've been considering
of suggesting a "Video team sprint" for various open source/free
software video teams; the plan would be to invite several video teams
(debconf, fosdem, CCC, LCA, SuSE, KDE, etc etc), so we can compare
methodologies, learn from eachother, and perhaps see where we can
cooperate.

Obviously this won't happen this week, though. I'll be in touch ;-)

This end should point toward the ground if you want to go to space.

If it starts pointing toward space you are having a bad problem and you
will not go to space today.

-- http://xkcd.com/1133/

[techman83]

No worries, I know full well how much work goes into a conference. Just a couple of things to let you mull over for now.

Although it's called EventStreamr, it actually didn't handle the streaming component. Tim from timvideos.us handled that for us (flumotion based solution). EventStreamr handled everything before that, as if you've had any experience with the DVswitch stack and the hardware (twinpacts are nifty, but unreliable); you'll know that the stack is a little flakey.

I did a full write up on my blog of how things went and a bit of background behind the solution.

http://www.techman83.me/programming/2014/01/20/eventstreamr.html

Good luck and I'd be happy to be involved with any knowledge sharing.

[techman83]

I just had a look at when FOSDEM is on, probably a bit late for this year! Good Luck and I hope it goes well.