In the past months we have made huge improvements in making Meshcentral work for computer management and especially Internet-of-Things usages. I am very happy to relase the Mesh Agent v1.88 with improved local management on HTTPS port 16990. While many people know about Meshcentral.com, they don’t often know that the mesh agent itself hosts a small web site on port 16990 that can be used to login and remotely manage the device without cloud management. This local web site already offered remote desktop, remote terminal and GPIO control. Today we are announcing improvements to all of these and the addition to remote file management. Basically, it’s like having secure a web based file transfer tool build into all mesh devices.
The new file management tab allows you to navigate drives, create folders, rename and delete files. But the best is the new WebRTC upload / download feature. Users can now hit a button or drag & drop files into the page and have them uploaded to the remote device. You can also click a file or select many files and hit download to perform batch downloads. For internet-of-things devices like Intel Galileo boards, managing and transferring files into the device has never been easier. Once setup, point a browser to HTTPS:16990 and login. Works on any platform, you just need a WebRTC browser like Firefox, Chrome or Opera.
Some people will notice that we are doing all this while keeping the mesh agent very small and the local web site is blazing fast even when served from IoT devices. This is all because of Bryan Roe’s amazing Web Site Compiler. This most excellent tool takes a development web site and performs a series of steps that results in a single C header file with a set of highly optimized web sites. All you need to do is #define the web site you want to use at compile time. What’s great is the at site is actually a single compressed file that is served to the browser in compressed form. The mesh agent’s 289k web site is packed into a 30k block that is embedded inside the agent’s source code.
Check out our video demonstration and talk on this new feature:
Youtube: Meshcentral.com - Mesh Agent site and Web Site Compiler (6 minutes, 52 seconds)
Questions and feedback appreciated,
Ylian Saint-Hilaire
info.meshcentral.com
A demonstration of the new Mesh Agent site with File management and
a chat with Bryan Roe who authored the new web site compiler tool.
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All new WebRTC based file management on the Mesh Agent local web site.
It’s like having a file management tool built into every mesh device.
The Web Site Compiler is the secret trick that makes the Mesh Agent’s local management so
amazing small and fast. All the steps for each build is all done in one click, takes less than 1 second.
The original site is developer with conditional markers for inclusion in select devices.
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