very nice, great work!

 

WOW great! can this run in background on 3ds?

 

Not exactly, not without homemenu hacks. Currently it's up to the homebrew itself to supply code to connect to browser. This demo app should serve as an example for devs.

 

BTW, @TheCruel pressing Start gives me:

"read: No more processes
Websocket handshake failed!"

Using the console IP works fine

 

I left it try about 2-3 minutes but suddenly 3ds "console" stopped writing (I don't mean freeze, just it stopped printing new text), and after that, using the IP it works at first try. I've tested about 3 times. The two first times were like that. The third time, it only wrote that "error" text 4 times and stopped printing new text.

 

Your welcome. I'm glad that helped you

 

It currently runs as a websocket server and not a client, but yeah you could use it as a websocket client too with slight changes. I was thinking about making a agar.io client for 3ds, but have other things to do atm.

 

This is only communication between your browser and the 3DS, nothing more. So nothing is stored on another server or going through any other server. The 3DS console is the websocket server and the browser is connecting to it.

My demo is hosted via github pages, so anyone can make their own too. Only problem is that it currently doesn't have SSL support. Or rather, most popular browsers reject self-signed certs over secured websocket, so I didn't bother figuring it out.

 

Sure, the code is already there for transferring images. Instead of just copying it to the framebuffer, you could save it to file. Likewise simple for sending from 3DS to browser.

At the moment, any binary data of the right size is considered an image to copy to framebuffer:
https://github.com/Cruel/websock3ds/blob/dcdb2036acb661fe55f13aeb50f92302576fc788/src/main.c#L97

But currently the browser client doesn't do anything with binary data sent to it since the title data the 3DS sends to it atm is a JSON string:
https://github.com/Cruel/websock3ds/blob/aec054c3c08a02d49fb6ad2da6e2122e6f1cd4ac/js/main.js#L33

EDIT: there are some security issues with browsers saving to disk, but it's possible you just need to add a button or something to trigger the saving. Guess it could be useful to show how to do that if anyone wants it.

 

Could something like Pokemon Showdown work with this?