Any experience with a Continuous Integration Appliance? [closed]

Question

We have a continuous integration server running Hudson CI. I'm thinking about putting up an LCD display in the office with various build stats and am curious what others have put together.

I'm currently thinking about buying a WIFI-enabled digital picture frame that I can send generated images to. Or repurposing an old laptop...

Thoughts? Experiences?

Answer 1

There are many solutions (all links below point to working solutions with Hudson or existing plugins):

• Hudson Build Status Lava Lamps
• Hudson Ambient Orb
• Hudson Do It Yourself Orb
• "Red Bear Alert!" - The Hudson Bear Lamps
• "Watch the bikes!" - Extreme Feedback with Traffic Lights
• Start to smell those code smells
• Nabaztag
• TuxDroid
• Radiator View (ideal for displaying on a screen on the office wall)
• eXtreme Feedback Panel (even better than the Radiator View, especially for a FullHD flat panel)

Check out the other Build notifiers plugins for more ideas.

Personally, I have experienced the bunny, lava lamps, orbs and the radiator view. They all do the job but I have a little preference for the lava lamps. As Jeffrey mentioned in another answer, it's indeed funny to race against the wax to fix a build failure :)