Elphel Camera Sandbox connection schema

This section describe how to use the Sandbox of Elphel 3xx Network Reconfigurable Cameras.

Please feel free to contribute and discuss on the proposed architecture.

Hardware

Our Sandbox is based on:

a router/firewall
a manageable POE switch: Linksys SRW2008MP
a PC with an HD, x86 CPU 2 GB RAM, 2 network cards, DVDROM
different combinations of Elphel 3xx cameras connected to the POE switch
- one Elphel 353 connected to the POE switch and by serial console to the PC for debugging

The server

The server will run a modified version of ElphelSoftwareKit

the distribution is be modified to allow:

to reserve an exclusive access to sandbox of a camera or of a LiveDVD distribution or both
control the POE switch (power up/down cameras, why not some statistics from the switch, like traffic, POE consumption, ...)
soft (reflash.php) and hard ("pressed" button and power up/down)
store/restore users/developers configs from cameras / LiveDVD on some server
reboot a LiveDVD session
bug report

Different models or combinations of boards can be connected to the switch.

Actually one Elphel 353 camera is available: http://demo1.stvs.ch:3580

fpt and telnet are also available on port 3521 and 3523.