WEB PAGE HELP

[waydavis]

I have a web page I am serving that does streaming video. I want to add buttons to be able to switch camera's. I am using Zoomkats El-cheapo switcher, which works GREAT (THANKS ZOOM, it is sweet and ran first time). I just need code that will tell the batch files to run ON THE SERVER. Probably very simple, but I've no idea how. The code I have for the webcams was provided by the webcam software people.

Basically, If you press a button, it needs to execute a bat ON THE SERVER ITSELF.

[Rupp]

Try something like this:
<pre class="ip-ubbcode-code-pre"> &lt;%@ Language=VBScript %&gt;
&lt;HTML&gt;
&lt;HEAD&gt;
&lt;%
if request.form ("button1") = "runBatFile" then
hs.launch "c:\program files\homeseer\html\test.bat"
end if

%&gt;

&lt;form action="pushbutton.asp" method="post"&gt;
&lt;input type=submit name="button1" value=runBatFile&gt;
&lt;/form&gt;

&lt;/HEAD&gt;
&lt;BODY&gt;

&lt;/BODY&gt;
&lt;/HTML&gt; </pre>

[waydavis]

Nope, did not work. Said it could not find the webpage. Probably the simplest of things, but
I know very little regarding html, script coding etc. I use dreamweaver to create pages, but utilize about 1% of its ability. :-(

What I was hoping for is 3 buttons, side by side, that execute .pif files INDEPENDENTLY of Homeseer and on the same server as the website exists on. I am using AnalogX Simpleserver:WWW


The three .pif files are in the root directory of c:

front.pif, Carport.pif, and back.pif

Executing these ON THE SERVER switches cams via a el-cheapo#2 on a xp machine. THAT part works great. Its just getting the 3 buttons on the same webpage as the javascript that already serves up the realtime video that is hosing me. :-(

[zoomkat]

To do the cgi functions on the analogx simpleserver, you need to make a cgi-bin folder under the simpleserver root folder, and put the batch files in the cgi-bin folder. Then you would execute them by using a url in your brouser like http://127.0.0.1:86/cgi-bin/front.bat (assuming you are running the server on port like 86).

[waydavis]

Tried your suggestion Zoom, Again, when I click the link, it fails. Could you email me directly so we could experiment.

waydavis@cox.net - Thanks :-)

[zoomkat]

Post the contents of your batch file here for a look.

[waydavis]

THIS IS WHAT IS RETURNED (address removed):

The page cannot be found
The page you are looking for might have been removed, had its name changed, or is temporarily unavailable.

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Please try the following:

If you typed the page address in the Address bar, make sure that it is spelled correctly.

Open the XX.XX.XX.XX:xxxx home page, and then look for links to the information you want.
Click the Back button to try another link.
Click Search to look for information on the Internet.



HTTP 404 - File not found
Internet Explorer

----------------------------------------------
HERE IS THE CODE FOR THE PAGE

The IP addresses have been changed to X for the video server and N for the AnalogX links I'm trying to get running.
----------------------------------------------
&lt;head&gt;
&lt;title&gt;Automation System Security Feed&lt;/title&gt;
&lt;meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"&gt;&lt;/head&gt;
&lt;body background="Backgrounds/bg70.jpg"&gt;
&lt;H1 align="center"&gt;Security Cam&lt;/H1&gt;
&lt;!--&lt;html&gt;

Do NOT edit this next section. This is the Image Pull JavaScript
--&gt;
&lt;div align="center"&gt;
&lt;script LANGUAGE="JavaScript"&gt;
&lt;!--
browserType = navigator.appName;
newImage = new Image();
document.onstop = document_onstop;

function startstop_onclick()
{
if (startstop.value == "Stop")
{
stopLoad();
}
else
{
startstop.value = "Stop";
newImage.onload=loadNewImage;
loadNewImage();
}
}

function document_onstop()
{
stopLoad();
}

function stopLoad()
{
newImage.onload="";
startstop.value = "Start";
window.status = "Live video STOPPED ...";
}

function loadNewImage()
{
uniq = new Date();
uniq = uniq.getTime();
document.images.webcam32.src=newImage.src;
newImage.src="http://XX.XX.XX.XX:xxxxxx/video/pull?"+uniq;
window.status = "Displaying live Security Cam video ...";
}
function initialImage()
{
uniq = new Date();
uniq = uniq.getTime();
newImage.onload=loadNewImage;
newImage.src="http://XX.XX.XX.XX:xxxxxx/video/pull?"+uniq;
document.images.webcam32.onload="";
}

function imageError()
{
window.status = "Sorry ... Server is temporarily hosed.";
image = document.images.webcam32;
image.onload = "";
image.onerror = "";
startstop.disabled = true;
document.images.webcam32.src = "/Anigifs/flash5.gif";
}

if (browserType == "Netscape")
{
document.write('&lt;IMG SRC="http://XX.XX.XX.XX:xxxxxx/video/push" width=320 height=240&gt;');
}
else
{
document.write('&lt;IMG SRC="http://XX.XX.XX.XX:xxxxxx/video/pull" name=webcam32 onload="initialImage()" onerror="imageError()" width=320 height=240&gt;');
}
//--&gt;
&lt;/script&gt;

&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;P align="center"&gt;&lt;font size="-1"&gt;Please do not run for extended periods of time,
Thanks!&lt;/font&gt;
&lt;P align="center"&gt;
&lt;INPUT id=startstop type=button value="Stop" LANGUAGE=javascript onclick="return startstop_onclick()"&gt;
&lt;P align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://NN.NN.NN.NN:nnnnn/SSWebDir/cgi-bin/Front.pif"&gt;Front&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;a href="http://NN.NN.NN.NN:nnnnn/SSWebDir/cgi-bin/Carport.pif" target="_parent"&gt;Carport&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;a href="http://NN.NN.NN.NN:nnnnn/SSWebDir/cgi-bin/Back.bat"&gt;Back&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;!--
This is the end of the Image Pull section
--&gt;


&lt;/body&gt;
&lt;/html&gt;

[zoomkat]

I need to see the contents of the back.bat file. It needs to contain some particular coding to communicate with the webserver or you will get the error you are getting. I've not tried running pif files as cgi files with the simple server, so they may not work (I notice that 2 are .pif and one is a .bat).

[waydavis]

Here is one of them: Carport.bat

out.com 02 03bc


Out.com is in the cgi-bin directory.

[zoomkat]

For use as a cgi application with the web server, Carport.bat needs to be like below.

@echo off
echo status: 204
echo.
echo.
out.com 02 03bc
cls

[waydavis]

Got the same 404 response.

[zoomkat]

You will need to start with simple trouble shooting to find what your problem is. Again, trying to run the bat files using a .pif setup will probably not work. Does the cam switch when you try the link and get the 404 error? Try the below test.bat batch file with out out.com involved using your link below. With the brouser on some web page, putting the link in the url box and hitting enter should result in the brouser not updating with an error. If you get an error, then you may have some issue with the server setup.

http://127.0.0.1:nnnnn/SSWebDir/cgi-bin/test.bat

========test.bat========

@echo off
echo status: 204
echo.
echo.
cls

[waydavis]

I use a hardware firewall on the network. I wonder... Is there a second port needed like FTP uses? FTP needs 20 & 21 open to function. It makes no sense. I can VNC into the server and run the batch files fine.

[zoomkat]

Performing the simple test described above on the computer with the simple server will eliminate any issues with hardware firewalls, as it is all performed internally to the computer itself.

[waydavis]

It failed using loopback.