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 HN
    • Cat 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

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