Tutorial 2 - Host a Free WebSocket Server on Heroku. Control TD with a Website using WebSockets

[@vo1dee]

Thank you for the tutorial. I just starting to learn TouchDesigner. Hopes it went well

[@peregovits]

Thank you for the excellent tutorial series! How would you go about running the socket server locally?

[@blankensmithing]

glad you enjoyed it! Yeah totally, you can download that websocket repo and run it locally. There's also a built in websocket server built into the webserver DAT that you can use

[@peregovits]

@@blankensmithing Awesome, thanks! I'll look into that :)

[@lautaroferrandi]

Hey it seems that Heroku erased their free plan, is it possible to do the same with github pages??

[@lautaroferrandi]

Oh excelent tuto by the way, thanks a lot for sharing!!

[@blankensmithing]

It looks like dashboard.render.com/ offers a free service. I was able to get it up and running for free using a new Web Service and following similar steps to heroku. For future vids I'll use that. Another option is that there's a socket server built into the Webserver Dat that's possible to run locally, although you can only control TD on the same wifi if you go that route.

[@matt112fly]

heroku isn't free anymore unfortunately..

[@blankensmithing]

It looks like dashboard.render.com/ offers a free service. I was able to get it up and running for free using a new Web Service and following similar steps to heroku. For future vids I'll use that. Another option is that there's a socket server built into the Webserver Dat that's possible to run locally, although you can only control TD on the same wifi if you go that route.