On Thu, 2009-07-16 at 15:13 -0400, Warren Baird wrote: > There seems to be a repeated theme of people posting how crappy the > Freerunner is and how nothing works for them. Usually a number of > people then jump on the thread and talk about how the FR works well > for them. > > I like to try turning that around and start a thread for people to > talk about their successes. Maybe if we get enough good ones we can > push it onto the wiki.
Well, not really a success (yet), but at least interesting, I think. We hear a lot on the list that product X is way better than the FR. But often, it's also the other way around. Using the FR as controller for a robot/helicopter/race car/etc. is one thing. Using the FR as an alternative to this (Nagios SMS notification) http://www.nagios.org/products/notification/foxbox/ which will cost you E 780,- seems almost ridiculously easy. You'll have to write some scripts for it, but with FSO sending and receiving SMS is very easy using d-bus. You can use usb networking and python has built-in server-client libraries, so no difficulties there as well. Of course, you could send a machine-readable sms (as opposed to human-readable) to let the receiving end (of course, a FR as well) generate a nice notification screen (with graphs, for example) instead of just a texted sms. That'll show those iPhone users who still browse the default nagios interface (ugly!) on their screen after receiving a simple text message. (Now _don't_ tell me there exists a very cool iPhone app for this!) David _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
