[Opensim-users] Announcing the Parallel Selves Message Bridge

[Justin Clark-Casey]

StefanL wrote:
> This sounds great :) so i dont need second inventory anymore to chat with 
> friends there ( or is SL not a compatible system ) ?

SL is a compatible system (the target system only needs to be a Second Life environment, not necessarily an OpenSim one.

One major disadvantage is that this only works if you're within an OpenSim standalone instance (you can't be in a region 
on a grid).  I think this could be overcome to some extent but it's always going to be imperfect (you couldn't travel to 
another region server and maintain your connection to the target system).  The overcoming part also involves a fair bit 
of extra work :).

A better solution would be some kind of IM gateway to swap messages between systems directly but I don't know when this 
would actually come along (I vaguely recall there may have been some Architecture Working Group discussion on that).

> 
> Best regards
> Wordfromthe Wise
> 
> ------- Original message -------
> From: Justin Clark-Casey <jjustincc at googlemail.com>
> To: opensim-users at lists.berlios.de
> Sent: 3.2.'09,  15:24
> 
>> Hi folks,
>>
>> I've just stuck up a new module called the Parallel Selves Message Bridge 
> on the OpenSimulator forge at
>> http://forge.opensimulator.org/gf/project/psimb/
>>
>> Direct download link is
>>
>>
> http://forge.opensimulator.org/gf/download/frsrelease/161/377/PSMessageBridg
> e-0.1.0.zip
>> This region module allows you to exchange IMs with people on your friends 
> list in another Second Life compatible system 
>> from within your own OpenSim standalone system (NOTE: this does not work 
> on grid systems).  This exchange is done using 
>> the standard IM user interface within the viewer.
>>
>> As such, it's something of a hack, since it uses libsecondlife/libomv 
> under the covers to log in your parallel avatar to 
>> the target system so that it can use that to relay messages.  However, it 
> could be quite useful in certain situations, 
>> such as when you're working in immersive full screen on building 
> something in an OpenSim standalone but you still want 
>> to be able to talk to people on another grid without having to swap 
> windows.
>> Although I've had this working for a while now, please be aware that I 
> consider it alpha code.  Using the bridge should 
>> be no more risky than any other application that uses 
> libsecondlife/libomv but I disclaim any loss/damage that occurs 
>> through using it :).  A base OpenSim build of r8214 or higher is required 
> to use it (which unfortunately rules out 0.6.2).
>> I'll probably put a post on my blog with a few more details about this 
> soon.
>> The code is BSD licensed and contributions/feedback are most welcome 
> (there are forums and a tracker on the forge psmb 
>> page).
>>
>> Regards,
>>
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>> justincc
>> Justin Clark-Casey
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