LanOSD 1.0b4 review
DownloadOSD is for "On Screen Display", basically, it's what appears temporarily in your TV when you switch channel or change the volume.
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OSD is for "On Screen Display", basically, it's what appears temporarily in your TV when you switch channel or change the volume.
It's a way if displaying "passive" information that doesn't necessarily require all of your attention, doesn't need a specific log, but which is nice to know anyway if you happen to look in that direction.
LanOSD can also forms a network with it's other LanOSD friends running in other machines close by, and decide which one(s) are supposed to display messages. Each machine has a priority, and the machines that have the highest priority at any given time displays the messages.
LanOSD is Scriptable, so you can integrate easily in all your scripts and procedures. Also provided is a command line tool that will work even if your procedure is in a cron job, for example.
Now, the "LAN" bit of the name is where it gets interesting. "LAN" is for "Local Area Network"; that is, your bedroom, office, floor, or Massively Carpeted Silicon Valley Headquarters.
LanOSD forms a little network with its other LanOSD friends running in other machines close by, and decide which one(s) are supposed to display messages. Each machine is assigned a priority, and the machines that have the highest priority at any given time displays the messages.
So for example put your main workstation to sleep, and the messages will start appearing on your laptop, which had nothing to do before that. It's all automagic too - you have nothing to reconfigure or change.
As a side effect, LanOSD also watches out for machines that are crashed or go offline and displays a notification on the current active display(s).
What's New:
Added the "local only" parameter to prevent notifications being sent on the LAN.
Fixed the -L parameter problem some people were having with the command line tool.
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