thingsee-simple-ws-proxy

Thingsee Simple WebSocket proxy module for Node

Simplest possible HTTP-to-WS proxy to forward Thingsee One HTTP POST requests to Websocket connections.

This proxy provides no authentication, no authorization, no security and no proper publish/subscribe funcitonality. It takes the received HTTP POST requests from Thingsee One devices and just forwards them to the client (and only the latest one) that has requested them on per-device basis.

Installation

npm install thingsee-simple-ws-proxy --save

Usage

Configure your Thingsee One to send it's events to your proxy server. The default API path is SERVERNAME:PORT/api/events.

Add the proxy to your node app.

// Launch HTTP-to-WS proxy
var TSWS = require('thingsee-ws-proxy');

var settings = {
    wsPort:     8101,
    httpPort:   8100,
    apiPath:    '/api/events'
    //httpHost:   '',
}

var ws = TSWS.listen(settings);

Subscribe to device events from your web app.

// Open a websocket connection the TS proxy server
var ws = new WebSocket('ws://' + window.location.hostname + ':8001' );

// Subscribe to device events by providing the device UUID
ws.onopen = function() {
  ws.send(deviceUuid);  // Register device (only one listener per device)
};

// Implement a receiver for device events
ws.onmessage = function(e) {

// Do something with event data, eg.
  var payload = JSON.parse(e.data);
  updateGameLoop(payload);
};

ws.onclose = function() {
  //Proxy handles closed connections automatically.
  console.log("ws closed");
};

Release History

• 0.0.1 Initial release
• 0.0.2 Typo fixes