communicate socketcluster from non-socketcluster processes ?

Use Redis events - or something else - and rely the events through the Broker process.

I am not a python expert, but this should work.

Just remember, this is pseudo-code. o.o

script.py

import redis
redisCon = redis.connect()
channel = redisCon.subscribe("SCBridge")
channel.publish({ "toChannel": "foo", "data": "My Message" })

broker.js

module.exports.run = function(broker) {
    var redis = require("redis");
    var conn = redis.createClient();
    conn.on("message", function(channel, data){
        if(channel == "SCBridge") {
            // Assuming that the sent data is JSON
            try {
                var o = JSON.parse(data);
                broker.publish(o.toChannel, o.data);
            } catch(e) {
                // Nope, not a JSON.
                console.error("Data has been sent to SCBridge that is no JSON.");
                console.error(data);
            }
        }
    });
}

I did not see a way to do actual eventing... But I bet you could utilize a Worker for this. Although it is not entirely their task, you could theoretically create a similar setup like above, except that instead of using broker.publish, you'd use something like worker.scServer.global.emit(evName, evData)...

Docs: Broker http://socketcluster.io/#!/docs/api-broker SCSocket on Worker http://socketcluster.io/#!/docs/api-scsocket-server

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