Networking roadmap and ideas

[andrewdavidmackenzie]

We are close to completing a first version of the networking feature for release 0.3.0 that allows you to run piglet on Pi hardware and interact with it from a mac/linux/windows/pi machine over the network.

This first version will use iroh-network, and hopefully provide ease of connection (using a longish nodeid identifier), even across firewalls and NAT etc.

But we would like to hear people's thoughts on what is missing or what to add after this.

Idea include:

• Security/Authentication somehow
• discovery of Pis on the network (using nmap and mDNS etc)
• remembering previously connected devices with a friendly name
• SSH connection via an accessible hostname/IP
• Connect to existing RemoteGPIO enabled Pis (we have not had much success getting this to work...)

Please let us know what you think about those ideas, new ideas, which you would focus on in the next releases.

[andrewdavidmackenzie]

I think we've given up on the existing Remote GPIO method....

We are about to release 0.4.0 with support for Tcp connections to remote Pis.

Plus I have working experimental support for connecting to a remove Raspberry Pi Pico !!

so the idea list changes to be:

Idea include:

• Tcp connection to remote Pi
• Tcp connection to remote Pi Pico
• Security/Authentication somehow
• discovery of Pis on the network (using nmap and mDNS etc)
• remembering previously connected devices with a friendly name in the UI
• SSH connection via an accessible hostname/IP

[andrewdavidmackenzie]

Since this post via 0.4.0 and 0.5.0 releases we have done the TCP connections to both local machines, remote Pis and remote Pico!