Ionic - Getting started with tcp sockets

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Hi There,

im getting started with ionic right now, everything so far works fine. Now im trying to write a test app to dive deeper into that all.

I have a tcp socket i want to send a command and this sends me a son reply. How can i get this working? I already read about https://github.com/MobileChromeApps/cordova-plugin-chrome-apps-socket and https://github.com/blocshop/sockets-for-cordova but im really lost to get this started.

Anyone here who can get me some help with this?

Kind regards, Christian

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If you need tcp connection maybe you can try with this plugin: https://github.com/MobileChromeApps/cordova-plugin-chrome-apps-sockets-tcp

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Hi Fabio,

this is what i already found. I saw your posts about using that too. Right now to be honest i have no clue how to integrate this into an ionic app. Are there any examples for index.html and app.js with which i can start?

Regards, Christian

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I still writing this app… as soon as I have a slice of time, I’ll prepare a tutorial on using tcp…

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Can you perhaps only show your relevant snippets about using the plugin here? Would be really a great help as i really want to start getting deeper into the ionic development.

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No one? Still can’t get it working…

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I’ve post some demo code for the community :smile:

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Hi Fabio,

thanks for your example. Gives some little hint. Doesn’t seem to work in IOS though :frowning: Perhaps i can track this down.

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I’ve tested the example only on android for now…

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A note from the author: “it’s entirely possible that a packet of data gets broken up into multiple packets over the network, and you need to call receive until you have it all.”

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Hello. Has anyone by any chance either converted Fabio’s example or otherwise used cordova-plugin-chrome-apps-sockets-tcp in ionic 2?

Thanks

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For anyone interested: the reference to the plugin is made via window, but not through the plugins namespace, but directly. Thus, in order to call, for instance, the create method, one should use:
(<any>window).chrome.tcp.socket.create();

I hope this helps someone.