Portaview Download

Download: portaview.zip

Installation

  1. Make sure you have Java JDK 1.4.x (we've tested only on 1.4.2 for now) installed.
  2. Unzip the "portaview.zip" to a directory.
  3. On Windows, go to the directory that you've unzipped portaview.zip, double click on the portaview-x.x.jar
  4. On the commmand-line, go to the directory and run: 
    java -jar portaview-x.x.jar
  5. If this is a Master Portaview, select "Yes". If it is a slave PortaView that you need to connect to a master, select "No".
  6. Type in a unique name for this PortaView. E.g. "Master", "Kitchen", "Bedroom", etc.
  7. Type in te IP address that your PortaView would bind to. It'll open the port 8888 (currently not configurable) on that IP address. Other PortaViews must be able to connect to this IP address. "127.0.0.1" is the IP address for the loopback device. If you are behind a firewall, you probably need to open the port 8888 to external computers.
  8. If you are running a slave, you would be asked to put in the master PortaView's IP address.
  9. If you are running a master, you'll be asked to put in your album directory. This directory must contains one level of subfolder that represents the albums. If you leave it as the default, it'll use the sample album directory instead.
  10. Note that you nee d to run the master PortaView first before running any slave.
  11. The slave PortaView will register with the master automatically. The master PortaView should show an additional icon on the left panel.
  12. Once that process is completed, one can start assigning albums to different PortaViews by dragging and dropping.

Future Work

All the core functionalities for the PortaView should work. We have propsed several features in the paper prototype that we have not implemented in our final implementation. They include:

  • Randomly select an album for a PortaView
  • Ability to assign an album to all the PortaViews
  • Ability to assign to any ablum from any PortaView. Now, one can only assign to different albums from the master PortaViews.
  • Viewer for individual pictures within an album