Subj : I have an Idea
To   : Fireball
From : Nightfox
Date : Wed Feb 06 2013 09:16 pm

 Re: I have an Idea
 By: Fireball to All on Thu Feb 07 2013 03:02:03

Fi> I have this idea and I don't have the knowledge of programming to do it.
Fi> I'm thinking about a remote paging/chat client/server for those of us who
Fi> have synch running on remote servers (in my case a vps). Here's how it
Fi> would work.

Fi> Set a flag in scfg to remote paging which enables the remote paging/chat
Fi> server (JSON?). The sysop  then runs a client program that will connect to
Fi> the server and wait until there is a page. When the pager goes off it
Fi> plays a configurable sound and asks the sysop if he wishes to answer and

I had this idea myself, and actually implemented a pair of apps (client and
server) a few years ago that I'd use for remote paging.  Since my BBS is on a
separate computer, I wanted to be notified when a user paged me on my main
computer.  It was fairly simple though in that would just play a sound when
a user paged me.  When I heard the sound, I'd then remote desktop onto my BBS
machine to talk to the user.

I wrote my client & server apps in C++ to use traditional socket networking
though, and the drawback to that was that if my server app wasn't running
(i.e., when my main PC was turned off), the client would take a while (several
moments) to "page" me because it couldn't connect to the server app - It would
wait and eventually time out.  I didn't really like that, but it worked well
when my main PC was turned on and the server app was running.  I eventually
stopped using it due to that issue though..

Nightfox

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