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SimpleWebRTC.js

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I'm confused as to why they didn't release a signaling server as well. Most servers I've seen for this are just simple WebSocket relays. Are they expecting to charge you to help implement the server? Or did they just think it was too complicated for developers to set up?

Here you go: https://github.com/andyet/signalmaster

Cool :-)

looks great. Also want to point out https://github.com/peers/peerjs, which is focused on the data-channel part of WebRTC

This looks awesome.

Does anyone have recommendations for a Node module that'll do WebRTC? I've looked at a few, but would love to get opinions from actual humans who've used them.

Do you mean as a WebRTC client, rather than a signaling server?

I think for that we'd need an SCTP (and ICE, and most of libjingle) library in node, and I don't think node knows how to speak SCTP yet. Sure would be nice if it did -- would love to hear if anyone knows someone working on this.

Cool stuff!

I used another lib [1] to create something very similar [2] last weekend. I needed an excuse to play around with node.js/express/socket.io and couldn't resist after I saw the WebRTC Chrome/Firefox demo.

[1] https://github.com/wearefractal/holla/ [2] http://videochatrtc.jit.su/room/HN

I tried to run the example but it's not finding simplewebrtc.com/latest.js Anybody got the example to run? Will it work with the latest chrome or only the nightly?

webrtc.io https://github.com/webRTC/webRTC.io

I'm curious when Android's Chrome will support this stuff.

It should work in Firefox Aurora as well, IIRC.

you need to enable the peerconnection flag in about:config for the nightlies

whats an example of a signaling server that could be used with something like this?

Check out peerjs.com. Provides a cloud server and has an open source signaling server.

Edit: this is a data solution for now though.

I implemented one for work. Basically, you have a websocket for each client, and any message received from client X is transmitted to clients Y and Z. There's not much to it at all; the magic happens client-side.

Here it is, it's really simple: https://github.com/andyet/signalmaster

It's what we use for this (I wrote it).

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