[Gllug] Digital Picture frames as network monitoring tools

[Harry Rickards]

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On 09/02/09 09:19, Isabell Long wrote:
> 2009/9/2 Isabell Long <isabell121 at gmail.com>:
>> 2009/9/2 tid <td at bloogaloo.co.uk>:
>>> Anyone have any experience of these things? I assume they're USB & some
>>> app to download the pictures...
>>
>> Well we bought one for my grandparents and they haven't touched it,
>> but they're useful.  The one we bought was cheap from Argos last
>> Christmas and you basically insert a memory card (say, from a camera)
>> and then it loads all the photos from that and you leave it in there
>> and they play in an endless loop until you turn it off.  And you have
>> to plug it into the mains.  I don't know if they've changed at all,
>> but that's the main way of looking at your photos that I've had
>> experience of, don't know if they do work through USB.  :)
> 
> But that's for photos, not anything else.  Don't know if they'd work
> for anything else!
> 
Some of them (the higher end ones I think) allow you to get photos via
WiFi so you write some script that gets all the info you want from
nagios and use something like pbmtext and convert to create a .jpg or
whatever with the relevant info in.

- -- 
Thanks
Harry Rickards <hrickards at l33tmyst.com>

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