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Posted: Nov. 12 2008,11:18 QUOTE

I've got a bit of an unusual project that I need some help with.  I have a number of USB devices (1 webcam, 1 GPS, and 2 machine controllers) that I want to access remotely (these will be used in a robot).  I've looked at using a USB extender, but for the same amount of money I can get a mini-ITX board computer so that got me thinking.  Why not us Linux on a mini-ITX as a USB server?  Is this even possible with DSL?  I know I can share drives over a network but can I share USB devices?  I'm a bit of a noob when it comes to networking and haven't done much with Linux or DSL in a long time, any advice is appreciated.  Thanks!
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Posted: Nov. 12 2008,13:30 QUOTE

That's an interesting idea. I'm not sure how you'd do the actual sharing, but you can use all local devices when you ssh in, would that fit your purpose?

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Posted: Nov. 12 2008,13:53 QUOTE

I'm pretty noobish to networking an Linux, so I don't know much about SSH.  In another forum it was suggested that I use VLC, which I learned today can stream live video.  If that works then that will take care of the video side.  All I need next is to be able to simultaneously send/receive ASCII to the other devices.  There won't be a lot of data to pass, I can slow the GPS to only send updates (a short ASCII string) every second and the other devices probably need to be updated 10x a second (also short ASCII strings).

The idea is to get away from a "dumb" USB extender that has limited expansion capabilities and instead use a remote computer.  I've even thought about using a remote desktop or such, but that may hog the data from the video stream...  So much to learn!  ;)
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Posted: Nov. 12 2008,14:37 QUOTE

You could create a simple app / script that would just listen on a certain port, and then pass everything to the device - and vice versa, sending all data from the device to another port.

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