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#Roomtrol Books link - create a bookmark in Wesfiles to '/departments/ITS/IMS/Classroom Support/Books' and then go there to visit the ebooks collection.

This is the roomtrol wiki, where information about various aspects of roomtrol--from planning docs, to information about writing devices and setting up controllers--is located. All of the pages can be found here, but below are some highlights:

• Goals for the end of spring 2011: what we plan to finish this spring.
• Setting up Ubuntu: how to install and customize Ubuntu for computers serving as controllers.
• Setting up god: how to setup and use god to monitor processes.
• Setting up and using heavenly (gitpusshuten): Setting up and using heavenly.
• Writing devices drivers: how to use Device to write device drivers (taken from the Device docs, which has more information)
• Writing RS232 device drivers: how to use RS232Device to write drivers for such devices
• Copying and Deploying Images using DD: how to use dd to copy and deploy images of Roomtrol Setups
• Debugging: for debugging
• Server deployment: how to set up a CentOS server for use with roomtrol
• Deploying a new Roomtrol Controller: how to edit the chef cookbooks and deploy to a controller
• Guide to using CURL to communicate with daemon: how to turn on and off projector and other devices using curl to communicate with roomtrol-daemon
• Setting up monitoring with munin: how to monitor devices with munin
• Simulator Project: a project to simulate a device with pseudo terminals
• Printer Monitoring Project: a project to automatically check printer toner levels and notify dashboard when they get below a certain level

This wiki contains information for the three roomtrol repositories: roomtrol-daemon, roomtrol-server and roomtrol-devices, each of which have more information in their READMEs and inline documentation.