Use Biblesync to track location with other Bible apps

[alerque]

It would be really interesting to look into an (optional) component that used biblesync to interact with other Bible apps such as Xiphos. Even in a single user environment it would be useful to have multiple study tools follow along without having to navigate them each individually.

[tobias-klein]

Interesting proposal! Do you know whether BibleSync is used by any other application besides Xiphos?
From a technical point of view, an integration in Ezra Project would certainly require another N-API based "wrapper" to integrate BibleSync with nodejs & JavaScript.

[alerque]

No I don't, I only knew about it all from Xiphos (and packaging for same), but I was looking into integrating it into a web app (https://sahneleme.incil.info). I had a few ideas for shimming it so that somebody (myself!) with say Xiphos a local biblesync port open could navigate there in sync with the online app (which has Bibles not available in SWORD).

Another thought that crossed my mind was a web extension to enable such navigation for multiple online Bible sites in sync with local study tools.

I don't have working code for either of the above, it was just an idea.

Some more background on the protocol development can be found here.

[tobias-klein]

Ok, thanks! Note that while this is certainly interesting it's probably not going to be on my agenda any time soon. I first need to "catch up" on some other features present in other bible programs (like parallel translation mode, enhanced search features, ...). If you or someone else contributes the N-API based JS wrapper for BibleSync I could certainly look into integrating it.

[alerque]

Nah this is a back burner one for me too. It just occasionally crosses my mind and I figured documenting it in an issue for future tracking was better than being only in my mind.

By the way this may not require a N-API wrapper, it might be possible to interact via websockets.

[alerque]

Bishop (Android and iOS) appears to implement Biblesync as well.