Spacebrew Server

A dynamically re-routable software toolkit for choreographing interactive spaces. Visit http://www.spacebrew.cc to learn more about spacebrew. On our site we feature a bunch of example apps and tutorials to help you get started. You'll also find a blog where we feature spacebrew projects and events.

@version: 0.3.1
@date: June 1, 2013
@contributors: Quin Kennedy, Brett Renfer, Josh Walton, James Tichenor, Julio Terra

Getting Started

1. Install Dependencies

• Download and install Node.js
• Clone the repo from github
• Install the dependencies using node packaged modules
  ** websockets module: npm install ws
  ** forever module: npm install forever-monitor

2. Run the Server

• Open terminal and navigate to the base directory of the spacebrew server
• Run the server by using node node_server_forever.js

node_server_forever.js vs node_server.js The first of these two files runs node using the forever-monitor node utility. This utility relaunches the spacebrew server if it crashes and it saves logs of the standard output from the spacebrew server to log files, in the data/logs directory.

3. Connect Client Apps

• Open the spacebrew_button example - make sure that the sever= in the query string points to the appropriate host. Customize the name= element in the query string to change your apps name.
• Open the admin spacebrew_button example in another browser window - again, make sure that the sever= in the query string points to the appropriate host.
• Start connecting apps and routing data.

Spacebrew Server Options

Here is an overview of the command line options that the spacebrew server accepts:

--port (-p): set the port of the spacebrew server (default 9000)
--help (-h): print help text (which is what you are reading here)
--close (-c): force close clients that don't respond to pings
--ping: enable pinging of clients to track who is potentially disconnected (default)
--noping: opposite of --ping
--timeout (-t): minimum number of ms to wait for response pong before force closing (implies --close, default 10000 [10 seconds])
--persist: saves route configurations that are set via any admin interface
--nopersist: opposite of --persist
--log (-l): sets logging to info level
--loglevel: set logging to info, debug, warn, error
--pinginterval: the number of ms between pings (implies --ping, default 1000 [1 second])

Here are a few examples of how to launch the app using command line options:

	node node_forever_server.js -p 9011 -t 1000 --pinginterval 1000
	node node_server.js --nopersist --loglevel warn

Other Services

HTTP Link

Description to come

Command Line Persistent Admin

Description to come

LICENSE

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