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« on: December 16, 2013, 03:06:22 pm »
So, I read the FAQ and some of the chatlogs and am trying to get this MUX thing to work.  I'm on a phone right now; the Flash thing causes my broswer to crash.

As a result, I'm using a standalone telnet app (ConnectBot for Android) to try to connect, and it...almost works. I can get a connection, the 'welcome to CauldronMUX' info displays, but that's it. I'm not seeing any sort of response to my keyboard input, and (eventually) the connection closes due to lack of activity.

Hoping that someone can shed some light on whatever step I'm missing here; I'm not terribly experienced with non-browser forms of network wrangling, and it's eminently possibly I've misconfigured something somewhere.
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Re: Connection Issues
« Reply #1 on: December 16, 2013, 10:06:10 pm »
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As a result, I'm using a standalone telnet app (ConnectBot for Android) to try to connect, and it...almost works. I can get a connection, the 'welcome to CauldronMUX' info displays, but that's it. I'm not seeing any sort of response to my keyboard input, and (eventually) the connection closes due to lack of activity.

Unfortunately, I don't have any Android devices so i can't test this, but from what little info there is about this app on Google Play (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.connectbot), it's a secure shell connection not a telnet connection. I suspect connecting to the MUX port with a secure shell connection would fail about like you describe as the server would not respond to the client in the manner a ssh client expects.

Searching for "Mud Client" yields a number of apps. A mud client should were better for CauldronMUX than a standard telnet client anyway. Blowtorch seems to be the best rated general purpose client (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.happygoatstudios.bt), but Lensdroid (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.lensmoor.lensmoorclient) and Mukluk (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.crap.mukluk) also seem to have high ratings.

Edited to add links to second two general mud clients and correct typos -- Randall
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« Reply #2 on: December 16, 2013, 10:13:42 pm »
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Unfortunately, I don't have any Android devices so i can't test this, but from what little info there is about this app on Google Play (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.connectbot), it's a secure shell connection not a telnet connection. I suspect connecting to the MUX port with a secure shell connection woulf fail about like you describe as the server would not respond to the client in the manner a ssh client expects.

Searching for "Mud Client" yields a number of apps. A mud client should were beared for CauldronMUX than a standard telnet client anyway. Blowtorch seems to be the best rated general purpose client (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.happygoatstudios.bt), but Lensdroid and Mukluk also seem to have high ratings.

 
Huh, okay. It had a 'telnet' tickybox but that was clearly not doing the Right Thing.  I'll look into Blowtorch.  Thanks. :)

(I've got another client working on my Windows machine at home now, as well, so. Hooray for technology.)
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« Reply #3 on: December 16, 2013, 10:31:35 pm »
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Huh, okay. It had a 'telnet' tickybox but that was clearly not doing the Right Thing.  I'll look into Blowtorch.  Thanks. :)

(I've got another client working on my Windows machine at home now, as well, so. Hooray for technology.)

FWIW, Blowtorch works really well for me.
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« Reply #4 on: December 17, 2013, 07:57:59 am »
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Edited my message to add links to second two general mud clients and correct typos.
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« Reply #5 on: December 17, 2013, 07:58:38 am »
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FWIW, Blowtorch works really well for me.

Then this is probably the one to try first. :)
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