Chalktalk Mobile Server

Purpose:

1. Copy interaction events from client devices (phone, tablet, wacom, kinect) to browser events on the display client
2. Store a state of chalktalk on the server, for every running session, share a state object with each display client.

Implementation

The server accepts WebSocket connections from any device with a browser, sending all touch events from a device running phone.html to the server, to any device running main.html.

Immediate goals

1. UDP connection hooks and forwarding for TUIO inputs on the server.
2. Serializable state object per session, SQLite running for storing the session state with a session ID.
3. Method for publishing the server's location from behind a firewall (universities etc.). Looking into No-IP.

Running

Have node and npm installed and runnpm install to fetch dependencies. To run, input node index.js followed by a port number. By default, the server will run on port 8080.

Once the server is running, you can acess it by going to /phone.html if you're a handheld device or /index.html if you're just a display.