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Orion / Google Earth integration

Grabowski

This is so coooooool!!!

I don't know how many of you who have been playing around with this, but I added all our locations (50+) from on 4 continents to Google Earth as placemarks, and then I put the map outputs from my Orion webserver as overlays. Then I arranged them carefully and played around a LOT with pause-timers, tour-times, elevations and much more, and now I have this really cool globe spinning on the plasmas in our Helpdesk zooming in on our locations revelaing Orion maps that are continuously updated to reflect the changes in our network and then smoothly flying to the next location (looping infinitly).

Unfortunately I am unable to post a link for you to see, as the maps obviously are only accessible from inside our private network. But if you can suggest a way for me to record it, I will be happy to do so and email a to you directly.

The only real problem that I ran in to was when Google Earth can't get the a map from Orion (when it is being refreshed or if segments of the local LAN between the plasma PC and Orion fails). I sokved it by finding a 30USD tool that can detect the error-message pop-ups and respond to them automatically.

I pretty much have just one thing more I would like to have in it, which is if somebody can help me work out how I can trick Google Earth in to have its placemarks reflect the status of a map or an individual node.

Suggestions will be very much appreciated...

Lars Grabowski
Global Infrastructure
Chr. Hansen A/S

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Mithrilhall

The only thing I can think of is...the Orion website updates every X minutes.

The weather.bat files runs every 15 minutes (I believe that's what you posted). It could be that Orion and the weather.php are fighting over the file?

Try running weather.bat without "/q" and you'll see it get stuck in a continous loop. Ctrl+C will kill it when you see it. After killing the weather.bat try running it manually and you'll see what I mean.

ggrapple

Thats what it was I caught it today. My browser updated at the same time the batch ran and it froze the batch file. Just killed it then reran and it came up