• After witnessing the continued decrease of involvement in the SpotterNetwork staff in serving SN members with troubleshooting issues recently, I have unilaterally decided to terminate the relationship between SpotterNetwork's support and Stormtrack. I have witnessed multiple users unable to receive support weeks after initiating help threads on the forum. I find this lack of response from SpotterNetwork officials disappointing and a failure to hold up their end of the agreement that was made years ago, before I took over management of this site. In my opinion, having Stormtrack users sit and wait for so long to receive help on SpotterNetwork issues on the Stormtrack forums reflects poorly not only on SpotterNetwork, but on Stormtrack and (by association) me as well. Since the issue has not been satisfactorily addressed, I no longer wish for the Stormtrack forum to be associated with SpotterNetwork.

    I apologize to those who continue to have issues with the service and continue to see their issues left unaddressed. Please understand that the connection between ST and SN was put in place long before I had any say over it. But now that I am the "captain of this ship," it is within my right (nay, duty) to make adjustments as I see necessary. Ending this relationship is such an adjustment.

    For those who continue to need help, I recommend navigating a web browswer to SpotterNetwork's About page, and seeking the individuals listed on that page for all further inquiries about SpotterNetwork.

    From this moment forward, the SpotterNetwork sub-forum has been hidden/deleted and there will be no assurance that any SpotterNetwork issues brought up in any of Stormtrack's other sub-forums will be addressed. Do not rely on Stormtrack for help with SpotterNetwork issues.

    Sincerely, Jeff D.

Another Linux Thread

  • Thread starter Thread starter Dave Marshall
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Dave Marshall

I just unearthed an old thread by Adam Boggs that sorted out my Spotter Network issues while running linux. This leaves me with only two issues that are preventing me from moving to Ubuntu on my screenless 'server' laptop.

The laptop has no screen due to an unfortunate mishap, so its going to live under a seat in the truck and handle some of the mindless tasks to take the load off my primary laptop. SpotterNetwork location reporting, video streaming, and the GRLevel3 screenshot publishing feature, as well as handling my 3G connection and GPS data distrobution to the other computers on the network.

Adobe FME has a linux client, but I haven't tinkered with it really extensively yet. I'm hoping some of the linux gurus on the forum might be able to clue me in here though. What I'd like to do is set FME up so that it automatically connects to ChaserTV and starts my stream in a 'paused' state when ever the laptop starts. I'll be interfacing with this laptop via VNC, so this will make the process of actually broadcasting the video very quick, a single button click. Has anyone messed with the linux FME client?

My other issue is the EasyCap card itself. EasyCap is famous for its terrible driver support. It seems I've coaxed my GPS to talk to linux via ndiswrapper and the windows driver. Anyone care to guess how likely this is to succeed, or maybe somebody has found a functional driver for linux?
 
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You will not get that easycap working in Linux, I can almost guarantee it (but if you prove me wrong, let me know what you did)

As far as FME, I haven't dealt with it. I know some people just use ffmpeg to send flash streams. I don't know how to do that off hand.
 
That's what a feared Ben. I did find a couple of pages that showed how to use the windows easycap driver to get it working in linux, but it apparently is a royal pain in the arse, and it doesn't work especially well to boot. Any suggestions on a linux friendly option? I would just go firewire, but I want a fairly long cable, and firewire cables are seriously bulky and expensive. They also don't get longer than 10' from what I can see.

I suppose I could use a 15' USB extension cable and my USB PCMCIA card adapter/Firewire card trick if I really wanted to get fancy, but that probably would be nearly as much of a pain as making the easycap work.
 
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