* Connections are routed through socket server with minimum latency, ideal for action games.
* Simple interface. Publish/subscribe paradigm in action.
* Server written on blazing fast Nodejs.
* Socket connections, works great through any NAT (local area network), messages delivery is reliable and fast.
Repo includes server code (so you can use your own server) and Corona lua client. More clients to come. You can test on my server, credentials are in the repo!
Lua code may serve as an example of how LuaSocket library works.
PS. First post on new forums. Hooray!
EDIT. If you like Noobhub, please give it a star on Github!
I have been trying to develop a web interface to NoobHub … All I have managed to get is a php page to connect get back 1 line then close the connection… Is it potentially possible to do something like this?
Also, we released our app last Wednesday for the App Store, Google Play, and Amazon App Store that uses NoobHub!
Has anyone had reports of socket connections not working well or not at all when users are on 3G? I know some users could possibly have issues but wondering if this is a widespread problem.
Actually, there’s a php client in the repo. Its provides console access to the channel, so you can type commands to channel and receive what’s the other end sending. I use it for remote debugging on real device.
It can be handy to implement simple commands in Lua, so you can type lile. “Img1.x = 100” in console and this will instantly apply in your app (handy to fix issues on real device instead of simulator)
Could you also post the link to your app..?
Experienced no issues on this yet… Anyway gona implement silent reconnect mechanism in Lua client, that should fix most connection issues.
Actually, there’s a php client in the repo. Its provides console
access to the channel, so you can type commands to channel and receive
what’s the other end sending. I use it for remote debugging on real
device.
Yeah I saw that… It actually was were I started from… Was hoping to have at least a one way access to the NoobHub stream via the web… Was able to create a super fast RealStudio client that *could* be compiled for he web…
It is an app geared toward the security sector… We started work last June/July but was back burnered because there wasn’t any good communication implementation out there … Took about little over a month to refactor it to utilize NoobHub (and massively clean up the code)… Spent a good chunk of time with disconnect situations (the code will try to reconnect to the server if it detects it can’t reach the server)…
I didn’t change anything in the noobhub.lua file but I’ll just give a gist of what I did …
local subscribeChannel = function ( event ) if connected == false then hub = nil hub = noobhub.new ( { server = serverIP; port = serverPORT; } ); print ( "trting to connect to:" .. serverIP .. ":".. serverPORT) end local function testListener ( message ) // DO STUFF HERE end if connected == false then print ( "trying to subscribe" ) canPublish = hub:subscribe( { channel = ( lobby ); callback = testListener; }) connected = canPublish end end function publishNOOB ( msg ) if canPublish == true then testA = hub:publish ( { message = { a = msg, } }); connected = testA canPublish = testA else connected = false if hub then hub:unsubscribe ( ) end subscribeChannel ( ) end end function t:timer ( event ) publishNOOB ( "KEEP ALIVE" ) end subscribeChannel () timer.performWithDelay ( 1000, t, -1 )
There needs to be a bunch of variables that need to be declared and what not but … I basically send out a keep-alive post every so often to make sure it can post… probably not the best solution but it seems to work… at least when I manually bring down the server and bring it back up…
I am still building my realtime game with noobhub and I really am very happy with it. But I must admit I really have no clue on how the virtual server will hold with say couple thousand players ping pong-ing.
Btw how you guys compensate for lag and how to test lag?
Ive used similar RESTfull cloud solution for multiplyayer, and I must ssay that laga were terrible. REST will never have a good latency, thats the reason why Ive built Noobhub. There were reportings that with proper tuning single nodejs server can hold up to 1 million concurrent connections. Anyway, if youre worried - set up several servers, and create a decision mechanism on which particcular server each user will hang. Obviously, US users should use server in US, that will greatly improve latency; same for european users.
[quote name=“chrisevans1001” post=“171321” timestamp=“1364120051”]Compensating for lag: https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Source_Multiplayer_Networking Sockets on 3G - some issues with certain providers but on the whole should work fine.[/quote] I used same tutorial to learn multiplayer networking and latency compensation. As for connections - once I implement auto-reconnect and resubscribe, hope there wont be any issues with connectivity at all. Unless the internet link is totally dead, of course.
I have been trying to develop a web interface to NoobHub … All I have managed to get is a php page to connect get back 1 line then close the connection… Is it potentially possible to do something like this?
Also, we released our app last Wednesday for the App Store, Google Play, and Amazon App Store that uses NoobHub!
Has anyone had reports of socket connections not working well or not at all when users are on 3G? I know some users could possibly have issues but wondering if this is a widespread problem.
Actually, there’s a php client in the repo. Its provides console access to the channel, so you can type commands to channel and receive what’s the other end sending. I use it for remote debugging on real device.
It can be handy to implement simple commands in Lua, so you can type lile. “Img1.x = 100” in console and this will instantly apply in your app (handy to fix issues on real device instead of simulator)
Could you also post the link to your app..?
Experienced no issues on this yet… Anyway gona implement silent reconnect mechanism in Lua client, that should fix most connection issues.
Actually, there’s a php client in the repo. Its provides console
access to the channel, so you can type commands to channel and receive
what’s the other end sending. I use it for remote debugging on real
device.
Yeah I saw that… It actually was were I started from… Was hoping to have at least a one way access to the NoobHub stream via the web… Was able to create a super fast RealStudio client that *could* be compiled for he web…
It is an app geared toward the security sector… We started work last June/July but was back burnered because there wasn’t any good communication implementation out there … Took about little over a month to refactor it to utilize NoobHub (and massively clean up the code)… Spent a good chunk of time with disconnect situations (the code will try to reconnect to the server if it detects it can’t reach the server)…
I didn’t change anything in the noobhub.lua file but I’ll just give a gist of what I did …
local subscribeChannel = function ( event ) if connected == false then hub = nil hub = noobhub.new ( { server = serverIP; port = serverPORT; } ); print ( "trting to connect to:" .. serverIP .. ":".. serverPORT) end local function testListener ( message ) // DO STUFF HERE end if connected == false then print ( "trying to subscribe" ) canPublish = hub:subscribe( { channel = ( lobby ); callback = testListener; }) connected = canPublish end end function publishNOOB ( msg ) if canPublish == true then testA = hub:publish ( { message = { a = msg, } }); connected = testA canPublish = testA else connected = false if hub then hub:unsubscribe ( ) end subscribeChannel ( ) end end function t:timer ( event ) publishNOOB ( "KEEP ALIVE" ) end subscribeChannel () timer.performWithDelay ( 1000, t, -1 )
There needs to be a bunch of variables that need to be declared and what not but … I basically send out a keep-alive post every so often to make sure it can post… probably not the best solution but it seems to work… at least when I manually bring down the server and bring it back up…
