I'm having a feeling I'll regret having done this, but xochat.org is now up and running. If you've got an XO you can point it at my Jabber server by popping open a terminal and typing this:
sugar-control-panel -s jabber xochat.orgThen hit ctrl+alt+erase to restart Sugar. You should then see the other people logged in to the server in the "Neighborhood" view. That is essentially the widest view. You should be able to see other users and shared activities, and share your own activities with them, including video.
This is, however, the bleeding edge of the bleeding edge, so don't expect perfection.
Also, this is a cheap shared server account, so I have a feeling it will fall over pretty quickly. Please don't trumpet this on your blog; if I get 1000 users tomorrow I'll probably just have to turn the whole thing off and start over by invitation only, but we'll see. I have no idea, really.
And, while you can connect to the server with a regular Jabber client, it doesn't appear that you can talk to XO users with it. Also, it seems like you should be able to connect with an emulator, but it didn't work for me.
19 comments:
Hello, Tom,
This is great -- when your logged in to the jabber server, you can do a search and it will gray out elements in the neighborhood that don't match the search string --
Very cool, and very useful for finding folks in a "crowd" --
Thanks for setting this up --
Cheers,
Bill
Very Cool Tom!
If the data load starts to hurt financially, consider setting up a tip jar on this site. I know I'll toss in a few!
Cheers,
Sean
Tom, if I do this, will my XO still be able to find, via Neighborhood, other XOs that are physically nearby?
As a non-Linux user, I guess I don't really understand what I'm doing if I implement your code. I'm not a programmer like you are. I don't want to reset Neighborhood to look globally and then not be able to set it back and/or not be able to find other XOs that are close by. I'm eventually going to give to this to my kids and don't want to impair their functionality too much! Thanks.
Scott,
I'll address this question in more detail in a subsequent post, but basically, changing the Jabber server is easily undone, and the assumption is that all shipping XO's will be set to their school's server.
On the other hand, in the development builds I'm using, at least, configuring the laptop to work with xochat.org does seem to affect how my XO's find each other on the local network, although this is probably a bug more than the intended functionality.
On the third hand, I don't think setting up xochat.org for your kids XO's is going to be particularly useful for them (I think it is mostly grownup geeks on there at this point) so you can probably just skip it for now.
Thanks, Tom. This is helpful.
Tom - thank you so much for setting this server up. I've been having a blast meeting folk! Yesterday I started a Write document asking anyone to leave me messages and got lots of replies; last night I saw more people were posting other surveys along the same lines. ^_^ This connectivity through your server is greatly appreciated. I agree - if the server load gets a bit expensive do set up some sort of "tip jar." The hardest part will be finding a way to notify everyone on the server about it...
Best wishes-
~Laura (Yuka-Boston on OLPC)
hi Tom,
Thanks for this. I'm trying this out now...
Tom,
Thanks! Just got it to work and just took a photo of all the little XOs and this page in background.
Thanks!!!
http://flickr.com/photos/thomashan/2152576476/
I didn't realize this was not setup by OLPC. I just saw a post and thought it was the setting for the G1G1 users. I was running an emulator on Gutsy/Ubuntu and it worked for me. Thanks for it. I see about 150 in the room!
happy year++
For us noobs, making modifications to sugar-control-panel is explained well here.
Tom, this is great. Bud Hunt and I used the XOchat.org server to play/explore some of the Activities on the XO. This is a very useful server for those looking to learn more about the XO laptop.
Thanks for setting this up!
Hey Tom,
I can't tell how much your server has encouraged my exploration of my XO's.
Thank You,Thank You!
While I didn't see your note and blasted it on my blog it's not like I have a big audience. I have modified my post to discourage new registration.
Thanks again,
Bill Pytlovany
Tom,
thank you so much for setting this up. It's a wonderful enhancement to my xO experience and very much in the spirit of XO.
I think i speak for most of us who are using your server that if you need some financial support for more hardware etc please let us know.
vicky
Is the server down? I changed the jabber server and restarted sugar but still don't see anyone else in neighborhood view
Evan,
Yes, it was down. Don't expect it to be very reliable until we move it, which will happen real soon now...
The server seems to go down frequently. Just keep checking back.
Tom, I get an error when I try to set my jabber to xochat on my new XO computer.
I use the command:
sugar-control-panel -s jabber xochat.org
and I get the error that these two files are missing from /root/.sugar/default
They are:
owner.key
owner.key.pub
Checking that directory, sure enough the files don't exist.
Any suggestions?
I didn't get any install errors or anything, but it doesn't seem to be working, either. Nothing different in the neighborhood view. Any clues, anyone?
Overall, consider xochat.org unreliable until further notice.
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