Multiple SW Remote instances

roussell · Post by **roussell** » Fri Aug 18, 2006 6:49 pm

Scott,
Is it possible to run multiple instances of the software remote on a single computer? I'm thinking about one computer with multiple touchscreens attached to multiple videocards with a separate SWremote on each touchscreen. ELO's touchscreen driver apparently supports multiple touchscreens so the only missing piece is several copies of the swremote running. I guess I could create one really big theme and spread it across all of the monitors, but that could get hairy...

Thanks,
Terry

Post by **ScottBot** » Sun Aug 20, 2006 4:25 pm

It's not technically supported. There are some issues with doing it.

If you search these forums, you can find some good info on others asking the same question and offering some suggestions.

roussell · Post by **roussell** » Mon Aug 21, 2006 8:41 pm

For my needs, I actually found out that if I:

1. Launch 1st instance of the swremote
2. Change the Windows registry entry for the x and y position
3. Change Windows registry entry for the theme
4. Launch 2nd instance of the swremote

I can get two different swremotes on the same computer, each running fine (so far). I'm going to try and scale this to 4-6 monitors to see how well it works. If everything goes well, changing the registry and launching the swremote can all be scripted so it should be pretty automatic. I plan on having a dedicated PC (Touchscreen server) running as many touchscreen monitors as I can squeeze in. I'll post the complete script when finished.
Terry

Post by **ScottBot** » Mon Aug 21, 2006 9:50 pm

Check out the SWRemote command line options. If you search the help for command line options, you should see the topic. You can use that to control the theme selection instead of updating the registry.

roussell · Post by **roussell** » Mon Aug 21, 2006 11:01 pm

Cool, thanks. I tried running swremote.exe /? and when that failed to give me any options, I gave up and tried the registry hack. Glad to see there are command line options, that makes it a piece of cake.

roussell · Post by **roussell** » Tue Aug 22, 2006 1:35 pm

ScottBot, I didn't see anyway to specify WHERE to launch the swremote using the command line switches. Not only do I need to specify a different theme for each instance, but I also need to specify x any y coords. so they don't launch on top of each other in the same window.

Anyway to sneak in a command line x/y position switch in a future version of the swremote?

Thanks for the help,
Terry

kilowatt · Post by **kilowatt** » Tue Aug 22, 2006 3:03 pm

Scott,

If your adding command line options to SwRemote. I would love to have the ability to specify the port. I access my remote housebot by tunneling a port through SSH and this would allow me to specify the tunneled port for the remote housebot server verses the local instance of the housebot server. I know I can configure the port now by a registry edit but I need to connect to both the local instance and the remote instance. So a command line option would make this much easier.

Mark

Post by **ScottBot** » Tue Aug 22, 2006 9:10 pm

I'll add these to the list for V3. However, it will be some time before that is ready for release.