04:54 <JacobWeisz[m]> Is it bad I have an itch to write my own primitive RMM tool?

17:47 <isd> RMM?

18:31 <JacobWeisz[m]> Remote Management and Monitoring

18:33 <JacobWeisz[m]> It's common for IT MSPs to install them on all covered PCs not just for alerting but as part of being able to remote in and patch things and such.

19:04 <isd> Ah.

19:04 <isd> Build it on capnproto!

20:39 <JacobWeisz[m]> If I wrote one, it would probably be some amalgamation of my home automation controller's strategy. But if I did, I would definitely move the server component to Sandstorm.

20:56 <JacobWeisz[m]> Basically what I'm writing is a stupidly simple way for my home automation clients to send messages to each other, with the general goal that the server, which I have less faith in (currently it's on shared hosting) doesn't know (or...won't know when I'm done, anyways) what's being sent.

20:56 <JacobWeisz[m]> And drastically more sophisticated solutions exist, but I'm learning a fair bit more writing one for myself.

20:58 <JacobWeisz[m]> It just... also kinda strikes me that the ability to send remote commands to computers I'm supporting with very illiterate users would also be kinda helpful, and could be implemented on the same system. Probably. If I get bored.

21:11 <simpson> I was going to do that sort of thing with Monte. But also I was thinking of BATMAN and alfred; each machine could advertise an encrypted Capn buffer to nearby network peers without needing a coordinated central server.

21:15 <isd> I'd just been thinking you'd advertise/query _capnp.<typeId> with a sturdyref as the value.

21:28 <JacobWeisz[m]> Well, Ian, I write my server code in PHP and my desktop code in .NET, so using capnp is hard. ;)

21:39 <isd> Wasn't there a C# implementation? Can't remember how far along it got.

21:40 <isd> https://github.com/c80k/capnproto-dotnetcore

21:56 <isd> Can't help you re: PHP though.

22:00 <isd> If you wrote the server bits in C# too you could share code...

22:08 <JacobWeisz[m]> That's cool, the last .NET implementation I heard of was abandoned a while back.

22:10 <JacobWeisz[m]> Also, I use Microsoft's least favorite .NET language. ;)

22:11 <JacobWeisz[m]> That doesn't prevent me from using components written in C# though.