chemistlearnscode/remotecmds

Exercise: trigger commands remotely

Remote Commands

Skills developed

• Concurrency (channels, go routines)
• Network interface
• Much more depending on the commands you implement

Assignment

The goal of this exercise it to trigger commands remotely. The application is going to be a server that can concurrenctly receive a list of predefined commands. The status of the server and the status of each task should also be available via specific commands. Here is a list of suggested commands:

• Current UTC time
• Current CPU usage
• Available RAM
• CPU usage over last hour
• Available RAM over last hour
• Download url into specific folder
• Make computer "say" something
• Capture and send a screenshot
• Trigger webhook at specific time

Resources

• Apple's say command: https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man1/say.1.html
• linux espeak command: echo "I wanna Go!"|espeak http://espeak.sourceforge.net/
• Windows users might want to look at ptts or espeak
• OS X has a screencapture command
• Windows has a free tool called NirCmd to do a bunch of things.