Spacemon

Spacemon is our IRC bot that watches the 4 webcams in the space and shows how busy each part of the space is at any time.

IRC commands:

 <+Toba> !space
 <+spacemon> garage: 0% busy, electronics: 34% busy, woodshop: 0% busy, space: 26% busy

This shows that the electronics area and the main hangout space are busy but the rest of PS1 is empty. There is no camera in the classroom or the front lounge or the loft lounge.

From time to time, spacemon will report that the space is unusually busy:

 <+spacemon> I see PS:One is packed with people. Time to release the neurotoxin into the enrichment center.

This alert is based on the "space" camera.

There is also a web interface, a SpaceAPI endpoint and the software, lidless is open source and is available on github.

lidless config

 [
 {
   "role" : "work1",
   "type" : "camera",
   "name" : "space",
   "url" : "http://10.100.0.61/mjpg/video.mjpg",
   "zmq_url" : "tcp://127.0.0.1:7200",
   "username" : "REDACTED",
   "password" : "REDACTED"
 },
 {
   "role" : "work2",
   "type" : "camera",
   "name" : "electronics",
   "url" : "http://10.100.0.62/mjpg/video.mjpg",
   "zmq_url" : "tcp://127.0.0.1:7201",
   "username" : "REDACTED",
   "password" : "REDACTED"
 },
 {
   "role" : "work1",
   "type" : "camera",
   "name" : "woodshop",
   "url" : "http://10.100.0.63/mjpg/video.mjpg",
   "zmq_url" : "tcp://127.0.0.1:7202",
   "username" : "REDACTED",
   "password" : "REDACTED"
 },
 {
   "role" : "work2",
   "type" : "camera",
   "name" : "garage",
   "url" : "http://zm.pumpingstationone.org/cgi-bin/nph-zms?mode=jpeg&monitor=3&scale=100&maxfps=5&buffer=1000&auth=",
   "zmq_url" : "tcp://127.0.0.1:7203",
   "username" : "REDACTED",
   "password" : "REDACTED",
   "zm_auth_hash_secret" : "REDACTED"
 },
 {
   "role" : "frontend",
   "type" : "alert",
   "mode" : "sustain",
   "low_level" : 20,
   "duration" : 1800,
   "message" : "I see PS:One is packed with people. Time to release the neurotoxin into the enrichment center.",
   "camera" : "space",
   "throttle" : 9400
 },
 {
   "role" : "frontend",
   "type" : "alert",
   "mode" : "sustain",
   "high_level" : 0,
   "duration" : 73200,
   "message" : "I've been sitting here in the woodshop for like a day and nobody came in. Will nobody touch my wood?",
   "camera" : "woodshop",
   "throttle" : 86400
 },
 {
   "role" : "frontend",
   "type" : "alert",
   "mode" : "sustain",
   "high_level" : 0,
   "duration" : 63200,
   "message" : "The laser is lonely. Excite a laser today.",
   "camera" : "electronics",
   "throttle" : 86400
 },
 {
   "role" : "frontend",
   "type" : "alert",
   "mode" : "sustain",
   "high_level" : 10,
   "low_level" : 4,
   "duration" : 1500,
   "message" : "The people in the main space are being so boring. Break a leg, slackers!",
   "camera" : "space",
   "throttle" : 86400
 },
 {
   "role" : "frontend",
   "type" : "alert",
   "mode" : "sustain",
   "high_level" : 0,
   "duration" : 43200,
   "message" : "I'm so alone.  Nobody wants to hang out with me.",
   "camera" : "space",
   "throttle" : 86400
 },
 {
   "type" : "spaceapi",
   "name" : "ps1",
   "metadata" : {
     "space" : "Pumping Station: One",
     "url" : "http://pumpingstationone.org",
     "address" : "3354 N Elston, Chicago IL 60618, USA",
     "contact" : {
       "twitter" : "@pumpingstation1",
       "irc" : "irc://irc.freenode.net/#pumpingstationone",
       "email" : "[email protected]",
       "ml" : "http://groups.google.com/group/pumping-station-one-public"
     },
     "logo" : "http://wiki.pumpingstationone.org/thumb.php?f=Psone-logo-w-name.svg&width=576",
     "lat" : 41.942387,
     "lon" : -87.702911,
     "cam" : "http://apps.pumpingstationone.org/space-activity/"
   },
   "cameras" : {
     "space" : 10,
     "woodshop" : 7,
     "electronics" : 30
   },
   "needed_activity" : 1,
   "status_note" : "Check http://pumpingstationone.org/events/ for public events."
 },
 {
   "role" : "frontend",
   "type" : "irc",
   "server" : "irc.freenode.org",
   "nick" : "spacemon",
   "channel" : "#pumpingstationone"
 },
 {
   "role" : "work1",
   "type" : "web",
   "port" : 8001
 },
 {
   "role" : "work2",
   "type" : "web",
   "port" : 8002
 },
 {
   "role" : "frontend",
   "type" : "web",
   "proxy_mode" : "auto",
   "port" : 8000
 }
 ]