From: "Larry Cochrane" <cochrane@..............> Subject: Re: Wish list Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2002 00:52:56 -0800
Arie,
Thanks for the suggestions.
> Wish List,
>
> 1) WinSDR writes a file to signify the end of an event write.
> The Alarm log is very useful, I use it to send me an email when
> this file is updated, but if a file were written after the event
> file was written then this can be used to flag some other program, to
> say FTP this event data somewhere.
I can add this, this will be easy to do. In the file I can place the time
and the name of the file(s) saved.
>
> 2) The above or some FTP code to send the data to a remote site.
> Needs Location, user and password, with time-out and low data
> rate detection.
Right now all I have is C code that can pull a file from a FTP server but
not upload one. Since there are other programs out there that can do a
better job at this I will hold off adding this to WinSDR. I will make the
program and the source code, so it can be ported to other systems, available
to anyone who wants to run their own image receiver program. The current
version runs as a NT / WIN2K service.
>
> 3) User selectable scale in the replay mode. Maybe only when one line
> is displayed. What would be nice, is to use the sensor calibration
> setting to create a ML scale.
A ML scale would be very difficult given the range of sensor that can be
connect to WinSDR. On the to do list is a one line display that will display
either the A/D counts or actual sensor data, if known, in acceleration,
velocity or displacement similar to WinQuake. In the single line mode the
display could also scroll horizontally as the data comes in from the A/D
board.
>
> 4) Mobile phones use some 55 "AT" modem type instructions. It would be
> nice to have some ALARM setting that will send a dial and message
> command to a serial Comm's port that is connected to a mobile phone.
> On your mobile phone you receive "Quake Alarm", though you need two
> phones.
>
I'm not sure how many people would use this? Unless one can guaranty a low
false alarm rate this could be an expensive feature...
>5) The "Gif" file Upload has address, user and password.
I'm not sure what you are asking for here, maybe the fact that there is no
password entry. There is a password sent to the server, but right now its
hard coded in WinSDR. Since the password and the format between WinSDR and
the image receiver program is not published, I don't think this is a
security problem.
>
> 6) Some Hardware pin that pulses say every few seconds while WinSDR
> is running. This can be used with external circuitry to reset
> the machine in case of some failure. A watchdog.
WinSDR can do this right now, but the code is commented out. The reset line
going to the CPU on the A/D board is one of the RS232 lines on the 9 pin
COMM port. If WinSDR stops seeing data from the board it can reset it using
the reset line. The code is commented out because I was having some problems
with it. I'll add this to the to do list...
-Larry
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