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service discovery of nearby deken servers #272

Open umlaeute opened 2 years ago

umlaeute commented 2 years ago

just a quick thought:

when doing workshops without a proper internet connection, it might be super-cool to do some automatic service discovery of nearby deken servers.

e.g.

  1. everybody uses the same local network (e.g. a local wlan router, that need not be connected to the internet)
  2. "teacher" sets up a local deken-server with all the workshop packages required
  3. "students" launch Pd and "Find externals", which automatically uses the discovered deken-server

something like ZeroConf/avahi is probably the technology to use, but it doesn't seem like Tcl/Tk supports anything like this...

umlaeute commented 1 year ago

plugin-side: see https://stackoverflow.com/questions/72351223/