Subj : Remote sysop paging dev questions
To : Razor
From : echicken
Date : Sat May 12 2018 02:06 am
Re: Remote sysop paging dev questions
By: Razor to All on Fri May 11 2018 21:31:48
Ra> I wanted to gauge how everyone felt about this sort of "collection of
Ra> tools working together" type of mentality before I start working on it,
I prefer to go with fewer external dependencies when possible, but sometimes
you can't really get around it. Whatever works for you.
Ra> with an installer? Part of the thinking with using Snarl or some other
Ra> true "notification" app, is that it already has built-in support for
Ra> multiple notification options, including forwarding them to a smart phone.
Ra> It's highly unlikely that I could support my own notification system that
Ra> would provide as many options.
I did some (not BBS related) stuff with Growl some years ago; it was handy and
easy enough. If it does what you need it to do, there's no need to roll your
own. I can't remember if it (or its presumed successor, "Snarl") lets you add
buttons to a notification; would be nice if you could trigger something that
pulls the user into chat when the sysop accepts the page.
FWIW I made a chat pager thing, but at present it's only really useful if
you're normally on IRC. This is in Synchronet's CVS repository, at
'xtrn/chat_pager/'. Let your IRC client send you the notification; tell the
IRC bot to answer the page, and it will pull the user into your channel via the
BBS' IRC client. This has the benefit of letting you respond to a page from
any device, rather than using the built-in sysop chat thing on the machine
that's hosting the BBS.
