multiplexing a mescore tcp-connected companion to multiple clients as cli-chat, observer or bots
- use one companion with multiple client-apps simultaneously
- companion radio with wifi-firmware to allow tcp-connections
- linux device (tested under debian trixie)
- python3
- python meshcore package (pip install meshcore)
python3 meshcore_multitcp.py -d Device-IP:PORT -s Server-IP:PORT [-q|-v]
-d sets IP & port of your companion radio
-s sets IP & port of the machine this script listens to clients
-q minimizes CLI-output
-v maximizes CLI-output
-f sets secondary IP & port for listening to clients using message-storage (see S&F)
-sql activates message-storage for clients which connect at second ip/port given by -f (see S&F)
After meshcore_multitcp is running you can connect your clients to IP/port set with -s
Using option -sql meshcore-multitcp will store all incomming private & channel messages in local sqlite3-database. If client connects at secondary ip/port given by -f meshcore-multitcp will forward all stored messages since last message exchange. Dumping large number of messages can cause hung up clients and messages could be lost.
WARNING: Actually theres no database-clean-up - so if you connect a new client first time, meshcore-multitcp will try to forward all known messages.
This software comes as it is without any guarantee to work stable and secure. It contains modified parts of the original meshcore_py-scripts. There are several things untested und a lot of bugs in it. Some client-app functions doesn't work as expected and could throw timeout-errors or crash the whole app.
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