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  • exec/mqtt_spy.js

    From Rob Swindell (on Debian Linux)@VERT to Git commit to main/sbbs/master on Fri Aug 4 20:25:01 2023
    https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/commit/483e3f07a3cdff863b81e9eb
    Modified Files:
    exec/mqtt_spy.js
    Log Message:
    Add character set translation (CP437 <> UTF-8)

    ... for when your terminal and the node client terminal don't use the same character set. Only CP437 and UTF-8 addressed in this commit, not PETSCII
    or plain ASCII.

    This was never possible before MQTT.

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  • From Rob Swindell (on Debian Linux)@VERT to Git commit to main/sbbs/master on Fri Aug 4 21:07:52 2023
    https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/commit/70a6a7df7cff9506c346ed84
    Modified Files:
    exec/mqtt_spy.js
    Log Message:
    Don't publish "null" node input topic

    get_ansi_seq() here can return null, don't pass that value to mqtt.publish() which gets converted to a string.

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  • From Rob Swindell (on Debian Linux)@VERT to Git commit to main/sbbs/master on Thu Aug 17 22:21:59 2023
    https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/commit/85076da060105721ca53cd16
    Modified Files:
    exec/mqtt_spy.js
    Log Message:
    Use console.write() when available for outputting spied content

    Defeats local auto-screen-pausing

    Fixes issue #603 reported by Nelgin

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  • From Rob Swindell (on Debian Linux)@VERT to Git commit to main/sbbs/master on Sun Feb 11 16:54:51 2024
    https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/commit/e8f9ad602d27d8e9c4db481f
    Modified Files:
    exec/mqtt_spy.js
    Log Message:
    Support spying node being a UTF-8 terminal

    console.write() converts CP437->UTF-8, so use write_raw() instead since
    we're already doing the CP437->UTF-8 conversion here.

    As reported by Keyop.

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  • From Rob Swindell (on Debian Linux)@VERT to Git commit to main/sbbs/master on Sun Nov 17 03:11:30 2024
    https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/commit/0eb5b55160785f3b2bd31091
    Modified Files:
    exec/mqtt_spy.js
    Log Message:
    Add backup Ctrl-C input checking, just incase console.aborted isn't working

    Telnet BINARY_TX mode from the client disables CTRL-C input checking in all versions of SBBS (before now). This change shouldn't be necessary now, but
    it worked-around the BINARY_TX issue when I was having it (couldn't abort
    mqtt spy).

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  • From Rob Swindell (on Debian Linux)@VERT to Git commit to main/sbbs/master on Fri Jan 31 18:19:32 2025
    https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/commit/9817d145f8ae7646ff99f966
    Modified Files:
    exec/mqtt_spy.js
    Log Message:
    Catch and print exceptions

    Because of the way this script is invoked from str_cmds.js (using js.exec)
    any exceptions were just silent failures, making debugging issues
    (e.g. the recent regression with the global ascii() function) difficult.

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  • From Rob Swindell (on Debian Linux)@VERT to Git commit to main/sbbs/master on Sun Feb 9 14:43:59 2025
    https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/commit/5cf45e51382d7a45ed71f3d6
    Modified Files:
    exec/mqtt_spy.js
    Log Message:
    Parse/print the node_aux from the node status topic

    Fix for issue #870

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  • From Rob Swindell (on Debian Linux)@VERT to Git commit to main/sbbs/master on Mon Mar 9 21:03:25 2026
    https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/commit/da7b51a1a2362296e89a8762
    Modified Files:
    exec/mqtt_spy.js
    Log Message:
    Output the MQTT spy banner earlier so it's more clear that's what you're using

    ... to make it more clear when this is being using by the ;spy command and there are any issues connecting to the MQTT broker

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  • From Rob Swindell (on Debian Linux)@VERT to Git commit to main/sbbs/master on Sun Apr 12 02:49:56 2026
    https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/commit/63fb04f5429d069b57ed9071
    Modified Files:
    exec/mqtt_spy.js
    Log Message:
    Fix the node number display in the MQTT Spy banner

    i.e. "*** Synchronet MQTT Spy on Node undefined: Ctrl-C to Abort ***"

    broken in commit 4fe0bb1983aa734

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  • From Rob Swindell (on Debian Linux)@VERT to Git commit to main/sbbs/master on Fri Nov 13 20:36:22 2026
    https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/commit/4992e7ed855369e62b191c12
    Modified Files:
    exec/mqtt_spy.js
    Log Message:
    mqtt_spy: reset terminal attributes on status change and exit

    The spied-upon node's output can leave the spying terminal in any color
    (e.g. the user dropped while in a door or chat), so "New node status"
    and "Done spying" would inherit those colors.

    Send a full attribute reset first: the terminal-type-appropriate
    sequence from console.ansi(ANSI_NORMAL) when run in the terminal server (written raw, since the spied output bypasses attribute tracking and an attribute change via console.attributes or Ctrl-A could be a no-op), or
    an ANSI SGR 0 when run via jsexec.

    Also disable the JS time limit, since spying is open-ended.

    Fixes #1343

    Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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