WebRTTY
Dev tools
terminal sharing
SHOW HN2018
125points
24comments
#339of 2,155 in 2018
Top 16%of 2018 by points
How HN took it
DebatedReal support and real criticism
2 positive, 4 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 2 critical, out of 8 comments about the project. Thread score +0.05.
Idea: 1 for, 1 againstExecution: 1 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Neat idea to use WebRTC
From 1 comment
Neat idea to use WebRTC. Do I understand it correctly therefore no central server is involved? I was once in need to stream my shell to some colleges and so I hacked together a…
h43z on HN
Built something cool quickly
From 1 comment
Congrats on the release maxmcd, you really built something cool quick! The best thing about Go is those easy deploys, it would be great to drop this on a remote server and go at…
Sean-Der on HN
Objections
Name clashes with RTTY radio term
From 2 comments
I don’t like the name. RTTY[1] is a thing, and this repo is not related to that thing. [1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioteletype
souterrain on HNCat is already out of the bag :) https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/rtty/ They do call out the potential confusion with radio.
tyingq on HN
Without a TURN server connection may not always work
From 1 comment
With no TURN server I cannot see it will always work.
verroq on HN
Requests
Run over a WebRTC audio channel for old RTTY
From 1 comment
It would be fun to run good old 45 baud RTTY over a WebRTC audio channel.
anilakar on HN
Questions
Why use WebRTC instead of WebSockets
From 1 comment
I'm not an expert in web, but isn't WebSockets better for this purpose? What's the advantage of using WebRTC for text-based terminal over WebSockets?
kbumsik on HN
Is a central server involved
From 1 comment
Neat idea to use WebRTC. Do I understand it correctly therefore no central server is involved? I was once in need to stream my shell to some colleges and so I hacked together a…
h43z on HN
Alternatives named
gotty
From 1 comment
Some related tools: https://github.com/yudai/gotty#alternatives
gregwebs on HN
liveshell shell script
From 1 comment
Neat idea to use WebRTC. Do I understand it correctly therefore no central server is involved? I was once in need to stream my shell to some colleges and so I hacked together a…
h43z on HN
rawrtc-terminal-demo with tmux
From 1 comment
Neat! I wrote something similar [1] more than a year ago which allows you to create one or more remote shells but sharing can only be done via tmux (shameless advertising). [1]:…
lgrahl on HN