Subj : MQTT
To   : apam
From : Digital Man
Date : Tue Apr 09 2024 11:03:47

  Re: MQTT
  By: apam to All on Tue Apr 09 2024 09:15 pm

 > Hello
 >
 > I'm kind of a little bit excited about the MQTT support in synchronet 3.20.

I am too! Glad to hear some others appreciate the potential. :-)

 > When I was working on Magicka, I added MQTT support to the BBS and wrote a
 > QT application to monitor the nodes on my desktop (another computer from the
 > bbs).
 >
 > I was thinking about making a similar program for synchronet, but am
 > wondering if anyone else is working on this sort of thing, or if something
 > similar already exists?

Ree wrote up a web-based sysop "control panel" that uses MQTT:
https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/tree/master/webv4/components/webmonitor

I tried setting up up but didn't have much success, so I'm not sure how far along it is. But I seem to recall at least one other sysop successfully using it.

 > I know the MQTT stuff in synchronet is a lot more detailed than what I did
 > in magicka, but to start with I was thinking of just having a list of nodes
 > with the status in them, and going from there.

Yeah, that'd be cool.

I was thinking QT myself for a future cross-platform replacement for the Synchronet control panel (sbbsctrl) for Windows. But when attempting (in QT) to recreate the same 4-main panel docksite interface we have to today in sbbsctrl, I wasn't successful. I do plan to take another stab at that in the future. Also considering using wxWidgets.
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