We have a bunch of Thoughtworks-branded Delcom lights, using the linux
kernel driver and some ruby hackery:
http://www.trouble.net.au/blog/korny/2010/02/12/simple-ruby-wrapper-for-delcom-build-lights-on-linux/

It's annoying if the linux kernel no longer supports new delcom lights -
thanks for making a driver!

- Korny

On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 10:17 AM, Ian Leitch <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hey Keith,
>
> We @ Envato just got our build light up and running yesterday. We're
> using a Delcom Red, Green, Yellow Visual Signal Indicator:
> http://www.delcomproducts.com/productdetails.asp?productnum=904008
>
> I had to write a driver to get it working (the linux kernel driver
> doesn't support generation II), you can grab that here:
> http://github.com/ileitch/delcom_904008_driver
>
> The light is pretty basic but fun none the less. It can display red,
> green and yellow all at the same time or individually. Though it's up
> to you to program some funky light shows in Ruby :)
>
> Cheers
> Ian
>
> On 8 April 2010 09:50, Keith Pitt <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > Im currently working with some guys at the ThoughtWorks office in
> > Melbourne and they've got this cool-ass light that goes green when the
> > build on the CI server passes and goes red when it fails horribly (it
> > also goes yellow during a build). Does anyone else use anything
> > similar?
> >
> > I found a post done by the guys as last.fm:
> >
> > http://blog.last.fm/2008/08/01/quality-control
> >
> > They use this USB controlled power board where you can send signals to
> > it to turn off/on connected devices. I tried to find such a device in
> > Australia but I havent found one yet.
> >
> > Also the last.fm posts shows that they have these status screens all
> > across their office - trac ticket status, last commit, load graphs
> > etc. Does anyone know of any open source tools that would be used for
> > office status displays like that?
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Keith
> >
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