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Brendan Hagan edited this page Feb 25, 2020 · 3 revisions

Provided the local network is not super restrictive, which I've seen in a few game stores, this should be doable. If not then some other solutions might be necessary, ngrok for example. You may also need to switch to a more commonly open port, I think NodeCG generally adds a firewall rule for port 80 by default? Refer to the NodeCG Documentation for how to change the server port.

On Windows, I'm going to open up a Powershell or Command Prompt terminal and run ipconfig to show my network configuration.

ipconfig output

Within this I'm looking for an ip address on my local network that will be accessible to other connected computers/devices.

Here I'm looking at my WiFi adapter and the IPv4 Address 192.168.86.109.

Now I'm going to grab the URL directly to the Tablet NodeCG dashboard panel, which I can find by navigating to that tab and opening or copying the url for the standalone panel indicated in the top right.

tablet panel open standalone button

On my tablet, I'm going to connect to the same wireless network and try opening that address, replacing localhost with the ip address. Depending on the age of the tablet browser this might be a pain, NodeCG is a little heavier than it probably needs to be.

So in my case, this url is http://192.168.86.109/bundles/streamsgood/dashboard/tablet.html?standalone=true

Provided some luck, the tablet should now be showing the following.

tablet panel

At the top are the player names, with a Switch button in the middle to flip between which is seated on the right and which is on the left of the tablet. This does not change their positions on the scoreboard, only which side of the table the tablet is set up on. I need some better controls for this, but it works for the moment.

At the bottom is a reset button and inputs for Poison and Game count.

It's a bit flimsy, so especially on a new installation you may see some blank fields or NaN entries. Click around either here or on the main score control panel back on the main NodeCG page and it should hopefully figure it out.

Ideally this should be fullscreen on the tablet. There are a number of Kiosk Mode applications on the Android store to lock the device in fullscreen, but I haven't found one I really like :/

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