Re: Sockets Question

2011-08-24 Thread Maarten Koopmans
On Wednesday, August 24, 2011, Andrew Henshaw wrote: > Im afraid that assumes I can program in objective c :) Ive dabbled, but its far beyond me at the moment ! > > Thanks for the pointers though, maybe it is something I can farm out to rentacoder. You probably can't this is soecialized stuff

Re: Sockets Question

2011-08-24 Thread Andrew Henshaw
Thanks, Ill give this a try in the morning! Andy On 24 Aug 2011, at 20:21, Pierre Sahores wrote: > Untested : a simple PUSH service should do the trick : > > Set the clients as servers able to listen to "HTTP POST" messages sent on the > your LAN broadcast address: your choosen port by your

Re: Sockets Question

2011-08-24 Thread Andrew Henshaw
Im afraid that assumes I can program in objective c :) Ive dabbled, but its far beyond me at the moment ! Thanks for the pointers though, maybe it is something I can farm out to rentacoder. Andy On 24 Aug 2011, at 21:21, Maarten Koopmans wrote: > Assuming you're talking iOS, use multicast

Re: Sockets Question

2011-08-24 Thread Maarten Koopmans
Assuming you're talking iOS, use multicast in the mDNS group via an Objective-C external. Pick your UDP port, and you'll notice that all wifi routers support zeroconf/bonjour. This assumes the desktop sends. --Maarten On Wednesday, August 24, 2011, Pierre Sahores wrote: > Untested : a simple PU

Re: Sockets Question

2011-08-24 Thread Pierre Sahores
Untested : a simple PUSH service should do the trick : Set the clients as servers able to listen to "HTTP POST" messages sent on the your LAN broadcast address: your choosen port by your real server where the posted message will contains the server's IP address the clients will then be able to