[Novalug] How to create a custom GUI to run ssh commands

John Peck messingaround@comcast.net
Sat Sep 6 18:26:46 EDT 2008


I'm familiar with this. I am looking for something I could create that
looks like a calculator. Simple buttons on and off mapped to a command.

On Sat, 2008-09-06 at 18:16 -0400, Nick Danger wrote:
> John Peck wrote:
> > I have an ubuntu box that controls my home lighting using x10 and heyu
> > on my LAN. I would like to create a custom gui interface on my main box
> > that allows me to click a 'living room on' button (and other systems)
> > that sends a command ssh remote 'heyu turn livingroom on'. I have
> > already set the remote box with ssh passwordless public keys. I'm
> > looking for a way to create the interface on the local box that will
> > group the lighting systems with on and off buttons. Are there any gui
> > builders out there that would fit this need? I am a not a proficient
> > programmer.
> >   
> I've seen this done before using web, which might help. Or you can do it 
> with something more complicated like MisterHouse. But if you want to 
> stick with the way you have it so far, there are quite a few Tcl/Tk 
> scripts that might do it for you. I've linked one, but there are others.
> 
> http://misterhouse.sourceforge.net/  MisterHouse
> http://www.msen.com/~clif/Control.html   Control   a Tcl program
> 
> 




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