Short update on xmpp, I setup prosody (again), and connected two clients:

it works, still hacked the reporting to be no xml, else psi does not render it

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As distributed sensors are desireable, I had another look on xmpp over the weekend. XMPP is basically an xml stream for instant messaging, which can be used for other things too.

The good news first, it works:

screenshot from the reporting using psi, I had to change the rendering to escape < and >, else psi would not render it …

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