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    Checkpoint some robot changes. · 5f67fe09
    Leigh B. Stoller authored
    * New robot event listener:
    
        * It is intended to be started and stopped from the experiment
          swapin path instead of as a global daemon. It takes the pid/eid
          of the experiment, and will deal with events only for those
          nodes that are allocated to the experiment. We have some long
          range plans of time sharing the robot lab, so I figured we might
          as get a little bit of a start on that.
    
        * Once it fires up, it subscribes to the usual assortment of
          events, just like the loclistener does.
    
        * It then binds a socket on which to listen for connections from
          the web server.
    
        * Then it loops, looking for events and for connections from the
          web server. Connections from the web server are for forwarding
          the event stream in real time to whatever applets are currently
          viewing the robot lab.
    
        * As each event comes in, it is parsed, entered into the DB (nodes
          and location_info table), and fired out (in a textual form) to
          all the applet listeners. The web interface just acts as pipe in
          this case for the data.
    
        * The event stream is also duplicated to a file in the experiment
          directory (the same stuff that is piped to the applet), named by
          the current resource record ID. I hope to use this stream to
          playback the motion in the applet (coupled with webcam images
          once I figure out how to sync them).
    
    * tbswap: Start and stop the new listener.
    
    * Robotrack: I changed the interface for how we actually communicate
      the event data. Much more reasonable then it was (a comma separated
      string of numbers!).
    
    * new database fields in the experiments table to hold the process ID
      of the listener and the port it is listening on. The port is not
      used yet, as the robot lab is still not shared. Will need to revist
      this later. Currently uses a fixed port number.
    
    * www/robotrack/robopipe.php3: Killed most of the old code and replace
      with simple socket connect to the listener.
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