I have developed a (beta) account-linking concept which allows for *auto-updating* changed ngrok tunnel details when your ngrok machine reboots. It even supports multiple tunnels potentially used with multiple LMS servers (as deployed in the latest beta version of my -Squeeze- test-skill). When you account-link for the first time, the account-linking page displays a unique *cryptographic key* that you can copy in order to subsequently refer to 'your' skills (both LMS-Lite and MediaServer). This key is pasted into a small Python3 script that uses the requests library to retrieve your current ngrok tunnel(s) from the :4040 web portal for ngrok. Via that unique key, the skill then updates with your latest tunnel details -without- having to re-link the skill. Yaay! That script can be set to run on a cron schedule or upon reboot (which is actually sufficient). For security, it only updates the tunnel subdomain and _not_ your -auth details so an assumption is made that you maintain the same -auth when your server reboots (which is a safe bet). If you do not want to use this new feature, a check-box can be unticked at the time of linking the skill and the current scheme is then used unmodified. That makes Alexa responses a tiny fraction faster (100ms) due to slightly less latency in the skill flow.
I'm in the process of writing the docs for this but I have a question for the LMS community. Is it a problem that the companion script is written in Python3 (and needs two Pip3 installs) ? Wouldn't Python be pretty standard on the machines people are using as ngrok proxy? Or would it be better to have a version in Perl with 2 CPAN installs (WWW:Mechanize or LWP::UserAgent and JSON::XS) ? I know Perl is standard on the LMS machine but if people are using RPi's for ngrok then Python is likely more popular on the Pi. It could also be done in nodejs with no extra npm modules but I guess nobody has that installed as standard ... Thoughts? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ philchillbill's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=68920 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=111443 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
