Messages from device to device

[LightTempler]

This feature would open a whole new area of possible solutions to Automagic:
The possibility to send e.g. a string from one Android device running Automagic to another (both in same WLAN).

There the post triggers a flow with an event 'Wait for a transmitted string'.
Result of this event is a variable with the received string.
Parameters for sending: IP address of receiver, port number, a password and the string.


Ok. This can be done setting up an FTP server on receiver side, but an native Automagic solution would be helpfull/
much easier and not to difficult to implement.

Later a solution to find the destination device even when IP address has changed could be found and added.
Maybe Bluetooth is good for stuff like this.


Scenes for this feature could be:

* An Android tablet playing Smart-TV source for a televison controlled by an Android cellphone;
all done with an Automagic widget on logon screen and some simply sended control strings.

* Same for a MP3 player.

* Collect times for projects for a whole team on a single Android device. The team sends their
data using their cell phones.

* Control a presentation on a beamer with your smartphone

* All kind of client/server stuff would be easy.


Regards and thx for Automagic: A great tool!
LiTe

[LightTempler]

Found a solution: The plugin 'Autoremote'.

Works great with Automagic, but needs internet connection.
Can even send and receive messages from Windows and Linux.

But: A build-in, WLAN solution would give even more fun