Add support for mosh

[xintron]

I use a physical keyboard most of the time and found VX connectbot to be the best suited fork. I can only think of one thing Im missing: support for mosh. I often move between 3G and WiFi and mosh is a life saver on slower connections as well as when you switch between networks. Another good thing is that it can actually save battery if you have the connections idle (when doing other things on the tablet) or transfer a lot of data (at least the irssi connectbot mosh-implementation).

https://github.com/ddrown/irssiconnectbot has the mosh support. Havent looked at the source yet but talked to the developer and he said that there is only a small part that connects mosh with connectbot.

[OliverUv]

Seems to have some issues ( http://dan.drown.org/android/mosh/ ). Mosh are participating in Google Summer of Code, and coding a proper android client is one of their goals. It might be a good idea to talk to them so that VX ConnectBot can integrate their efforts. Having yet another android ssh client that can't handle keyboard (and other settings) as well as vx isn't useful.

[phedders]

Would still be good to incorporate Dans mosh changes (which I understand are basically a small interface change to add mosh drop down box and to run mosh-client, plus the mosh-client binary itself.

If there are improvements to the mosh-client then they can be added later, but the above linked connectbot works very well for me.... I really would like a merge of the two :)

Thanks

[insensitiveclod42]

Support for MOSH inside of (vx)-connectbot has become rather more relevant lately with the advent of the TF701T device from Asus. It would seem that (again) Asus has managed to change keyboard mapping mechanics once again so that only VX connectbot seems to handle it properly at all. The only fork that seems to have Mosh support in Connectbot is Irssi-connectbot.

So (with my TF701T) i can now choose between Mosh-support... with software keyboard.... or SSH with hardware keyboard, having to re-connect each time.

The only escape out of this is Juice SSH which has total crappy support for URL-scanning and cut-and-paste...not to mention having to trust a non-OSS implementation of SSH for your security/privacy...

[VorpalBlade]

I too would be interested in this.

[geco2]

Just want to push the mosh requirement...

[DavidVentura]

Is this project still alive? I'd love to see this

[rodrigoaguilera]

This fork looks more alive https://github.com/connectbot/connectbot

[ghost]

That's not a fork, it's the original ConnectBot.