So I dusted off my "hacking" skills…
I fought and fought and fought to make this work as designed by the engineers at Screen with no success. So I came up with a work around…
Forward:
I am not responsible for any damages caused by following this. This solution will work on Linux or Unix (including Mac OS X).
What you'll need:
- The Screen device configured as described in Chapter 6: User maintenance mode 6.6.11 TCP/IP (page 6-43)
- The PlateRite series users manual separate volume: Remote monitoring function
- The images associated from your device from the screen.co.jp website (remote monitoring function manual explains where, how and why you need this)
- Experience with using the terminal
- A Unix, Linux or Mac OS X computer
- wget.
- On Mac OS X you'll need Xcode with command line tools downloaded (open Xcode, go to preferences > downloads)
If you want to re-re-broadcast (yes, re-re) this on your local network:
- A web server like Apache installed, configured and running on the computer running the wget script*
*I did not do this and further scripting will be required to re-process the html files to find/replace any "file:///" references in the HTML code.
Description of solution:
Use WGET to recursively collect all files from the device's web server. I am using a script to make WGET run every 5 seconds and opening these files collected on a local computer's web browser. This allows the browser's security feature to allow local images to be shown. The webpages will be looking where you setup the screen device to point; page 42 in the "platerite series remote monitoring function manual".
The script below was found on the ubuntuforums.org
#!/bin/bash
echo 'what is the url?'
read url
wget $url &
while [ 1 ] ; do
wget -rk $url &
sleep 5
killall wget
done
Execute this script in terminal. When executing the script will create a folder of the DNS name or ip address of the server that you entered and store all files collected there.
I did proof-of-concept on my Mac and then recreated this on an old computer that I repurposed running ubuntu linux. I have a repurposed old monitor mounted to the wall displaying this a la Nasa Mission Control.
There are a few odd quirks on achieving this on Mac OS X beyond installing Xcode. A few links that might help as guidelines:
How to create a UNIX bash script on a mac | The Agile Warrior
Install wget in Mac OS X Without Homebrew or MacPorts
