SETI public: Results for Remote SETI Test #3

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From: James Brown (Jim_at_Seti.Net)
Date: Sat May 14 2005 - 17:08:33 PDT

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    Several people were able to log in and run the antenna through its paces. Paul Shuch, New Jersey, was the first to control the antenna Az and El remotely. Hamdi Mani from Tunisia was the second. Many others ran the system in the demo mode and it seemed to work fine.
    Several problems surfaced. They are:

    1. After a server restart the clients can log in but when they attempt to start the Az/El refresh it blows there clients up. At first I thought it was a problem with the operating system because the problems all occurred on XP machines, but Paul was able to run fine with both Win98 and XP. The problem seems to be in the client.

    2. Paul pointed out that I have the stop-to-stop rings (their called annulars) on both the Az and El gauges setup wrong.

    3. I found that the Antenna server user interface doesn't come up when the remote server is running on Win 2003 server. I have no idea why but I have to move the server to that machine so I can continue development on this machine (Zeke).

    4. I am going to add a one line chat to the client. That would help greatly and reduce the load on the SETI League list servers.

    5. I will move the LED that signals when you are the Master Client to a place that can be viewed from any page. I will also show who is the Master Client. by name. on each of the clients so there will be less confusion.

    That should fix up this version of the client. Then I can move to the next level The next client major release will have the Sky Map hooked in so that you can see what point in the sky the antenna is point at. I will also allow the antenna to track a specific point. After that streaming audio in MP3 format and saving of the raw WAV files to the archives. Lots of work left to do...

    If you are interested in participating in the next test (I can't say for sure when that will be) you can join the beta team. Email me and I'll put you in a notify list when the next test comes about. That way we can agree on what type of information I need when a flame out occurs (what Op system, what were you doing, demo or live, etc). That will be a big help.

    Thanks again for all the help. Its only by using something that you can work the bugs out.

    Argus Station: DM12jb
    James Brown
    W6KYP
    Jim_at_SETI.Net [put 'SETI' in subject line]
    www.seti.net]

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