Hi!

It is possible to control RUNNING houdini session via ssh?
For example with a mobile phone running android? I want to connect via ssh to houdini worksation run render and get feedback in commandline of my android phone the current render progress.

Is it possible?

Thank you

I'm pretty sure you can't. You can use ssh to start hscript/hython sessions (I've done that before) but you can't really insert yourself into another session/shell so you'd get mantra output.

You could get access to the scene from a new hython session if your running session had a houxmlrpc server going but that would only give you normal Python control, no mantra verbose feedback type stuff though. The same goes for openport I believe.

Thank you for that reply

Hmm so my last idea is to run new hscript/hython via ssh - but is then possible to send output picture of mantra render directly to screen od houdini workstation - as for example to houdinis image processor as ip render?

You might be able to do that with Vnc. The Vnc server(running on Houdini machine) might be able to feed a portion of the screen to you(Vnc client) .

You can use “openport”:

http://www.sidefx.com/docs/houdini10.0/commands/openport [sidefx.com]

and “closeport”:
http://www.sidefx.com/docs/houdini10.0/commands/closeport [sidefx.com]

And then communicate via “hcommand”.