What are the thoughts of writing agent code in a language such as node, java etc. I suspect it’s just honouring the protocol between the agent and the device. What is the protocol between the agent service and the device.
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Sorry, this is not possible because imps only talk to the imp server. Agents are only written in squirrel for a couple of main reasons:
- Same language for device and agent, so less mental gymnastics when switching
- We host all of them, so we need a tightly controlled VM in order to deal with bad code and security issues
You can obviously write a minimal “pass through” agent which passes the data onto your own server running node, java, etc.
Developing a pass through agent sounds like a reasonable approach. Basically, the agent would proxy every incoming and outgoing request to the nodejs application. Sounds like it’s something that would be useful for other platforms
I may give that a crack and see how I go
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Hugo, what is the protocol between the imp and e agent running on the server? Is it tcp
Yes, it’s TCP secured with TLS.