Share My Creation ChatAbox web creator and server

Hi all,
Something I have been working on for ages.
This website chatabox.zapto.org is running from home.
The speed of my site is very slow. We are on satellite and can only get 25mB download and 5mB upload. Hopefully by the end of the year 'Starlink' will be available in our area.

It is running from an old laptop and a Raspberry Pi 400. (I mix and match)
The distro I use is Dietpi 64bit. I have haproxy (an overkill but handy for letsEncrypt) and NoIp to create my name.
The server is a b4j app. Events are all driven from mqtt events. e.g. temperature, images etc.
The admin page is running on a separate server area so you cannot login to this area from outside.
All page design is done in the admin area. Pages and design can be edited and previewed before committing to go live.
The database can either be mySql or Sqlite3.
The software will be free to anyone who wants it. I am still beta testing it so this will be soon.
If anyone wants a copy just go to the contact area and leave me a message.
Tom

 

[Mashiane]

I visited this the other day, your home lights at night, wow. great work, congrats! I read that you are sending sensor data via mqtt, interesting.

 

[TomDuncan]

I visited this the other day, your home lights at night, wow. great work, congrats! I read that you are sending sensor data via mqtt, interesting.

Thanks for that. Still work in progress.

 

[Erel]

Great work!

 

[Jones Hone]

Wow! The starry sky of your house at night is my dream.
But for me who live in the city, it is an impossible wish.
In my house, looking up at the sky at night.
I only see the street lights.

 

[TomDuncan]

We are about 10k from the nearest tiny town. Wonderful clear nights.

 

[TomDuncan]

Tha

Great work!

Thanks Erel. Still have heaps to go.

 

[TomDuncan]

Wow! The starry sky of your house at night is my dream.
But for me who live in the city, it is an impossible wish.
In my house, looking up at the sky at night.
I only see the street lights.

Check out my latest blog on chatabox I have added another night shot for you. Also our view from the front door of Mt Roland.
Tom

 

[Jones Hone]

Wow! Pretty!

 

[TomDuncan]

Wow! Pretty!

We do live in a rather groovy place..

 

[TomDuncan]

I visited this the other day, your home lights at night, wow. great work, congrats! I read that you are sending sensor data via mqtt, interesting.

To me it is an easy way to have html objects updating when needed. The html data to be used is parsed with the json data then send the final data. Easy to do.

 

[RootBOOT]

Hi guyz is there any way to modify the mqtt chatroom project so that instead of sending text it sends image files

 

[TomDuncan]

Up to version 0.56 now and will make it available in a day or two if I don't have any major problems.
chatabox.zapto.org

Thanks all your comments and help from everyone.

Tom

 

[TomDuncan]

Just made a simple demo using Bootstrap 5.
I have used b4j as a theme for fun..
chatabox.zapto.org/any_demo.html

 

[Erel]

Looks great!

 

[TomDuncan]

First very beta version of source code is ready for anyone to test.
This is a slow uplink speed so be patient.
chatabox.zapto.org/download/download.html

Tom

 

[TomDuncan]

version 0.61 is ready for download.
Fixed a null error. (silly error)
(notice link for downloads has been updated
chatabox.zapto.org/download.html
Tom

 

[aidymp]

I have just tried this as Im trying to get to grips with webapps in general, it is really good. Thanks for sharing.

 

[AnandGupta]

Hi @TomDuncan

I just saw the photos of your home. Beautiful.
To say you live your daily here and we have to pay a fortune to spend few days in a resort with house, facilities and outside views like yours !

Man you are living dreams of many here.

 

[TomDuncan]

Thanks for that. It is a special area. Glad you liked our home. Mt Roland looks over us.
Tom