A colleague and I were fantasizing today about being able to remote control Arev using a Palm Pilot. It should be possible. With the Palm VII there is a phone built in. All that's needed is remote control software for the Palm VII.
See the thing is, right now we are tied down to our offices or homes to monitor certain activities in case the network fails us or something. Much better would be to monitor the workstations from a high class restaurant or theatre.
Well, it is a fantasy, but one that I think is actually in the realm of possibility. What do you think?
P.S. Not interested in a Windows CE PDA although perhaps you could change my mind.
Victor,
One thing that I've played around with is the following:
I have a long AREV process running.
Every now and then I will write out to a text file the progress of the program.
I have a VB program that monitors this folder for this particular file.
When it finds it, it reads it in and shoots me an email message using the JMail dll available from Dimac (it's free).
It should be too difficult to flip this around where you send an email back, and have a rule on your email client that processes the email; let's say there is an attachment on it, and saves this attachment out to a directory.
Your AREV program monitors this directory for a specified file, and when it exists it takes action.
Obviously, this file could contain a wealth of different types of information:
Configuration parameters
TCL commands to execute
Anything else you want to write the code for
It would definitely be a plus to have "remote administration" of AREV.
Let me know how it works out.
Matt Sorrell
msorrell@movgal.com
Use OIGCI and write a web based TCL - easily done and very effective. Remote support at web rates. I presume you have a browser on the Palm VII (even my wife's mobile phone has one )