Expand protocol to improve server subset sync

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A project for controlling multiple Pi cameras simultaneously

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Expand protocol to improve server subset sync #33

Open waveform80 opened 9 years ago

waveform80 commented 9 years ago

The protocol could be expanded to include specific sub-lists of servers targetted by a broadcast which would improve synchronization when a subset of servers are specified. The major problem becomes message size when dealing with a sufficiently large network of servers. Investigate the practicality of this sometime before 1.0