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 The following is taken straight from the old YSTV website.  It may well be out of date so needs updating by someone in the computing team --[[User:Malcolm.chambers|Malcolm.chambers]] 23:34, 22 December 2009 (UTC)
+Updated and extended (Ok, it's not quite computing team, but I know spider pretty well as i wrote [[skedular]] --[[User:Michael.Cullen|Michael.Cullen]] 23:13, 11 January 2010 (UTC)
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 Command Line Interface
-If you need to "speak spider" to find out what's going on in the system, then you can telnet into port 5091 on ystvoffpc (to be called ystvspider) and query the status of devices and which are connected. You need to be logged in to the machine to do this because port 5091 is blocked at the firewall.
+If you need to "speak spider" to find out what's going on in the system, then you can telnet into port 5091 on ystvspider and query the status of devices and which are connected. You need to be logged in to the machine to do this if you're outside James Nucleus because port 5091 is blocked at the firewall.
 Possible commands are:
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+There are two user accounts:
+* user
+* sched
+user is a higher priority than sched. Sched is what [[skedular]] logs in as,and if any controls have not been set to * by user, sched can do nothing. (interesting side note: if user tells it to play a video, then sched tells it to play a video, it plays the video user told it to, but restarts it when sched tells it to.)