Host/run own ai2 service

Nick_Admant · October 19, 2019, 4:22pm

Hello,
I’d like to run my own app inventor service like thunkable, appybuilder, block2code, etc. How can I do it? Are there any tutorials out there, because I didn’t find any?

Thanks in advance.

Souvik_Bera · October 19, 2019, 6:21pm

Read the Readme file

Nick_Admant · October 20, 2019, 4:55am

Thanks, I’ll try it.

ewpatton · October 21, 2019, 12:41pm

Just be aware that there are more moving parts than just what is present in the README. That will get you to the point where you could deploy a version to Google App Engine, possibly with a build server, but doesn’t include information about running your own rendezvous server, CloudDB server, etc., and some components need additional configuration to work (i.e., Firebase, YandexTranslate).

im2nguyen · January 20, 2020, 7:59am

Hi @ewpatton, are there plans on opensourcing the rendezvous server too?

We’re trying to secure our implementation with https, but running into issues connecting to http://rendezvous.appinventor.mit.edu/ since it’s not open on port 443.

Thanks!

Diego · January 20, 2020, 10:13am

Rendezvous server is already open source. It can be found at appinventor/misc/rendezvous.

im2nguyen · January 20, 2020, 10:28am

Thanks @Diego I pulled and now hosting it. For some reason, I’m getting stuck at this message

Have you experienced it before? If you have, what did you do to resolve it?

https://appjam.org/#5634161670881280 - https://rendezvous.appjam.org/

Diego · January 20, 2020, 11:04am

Check this topic: ¿Podrían hacer su web segura? (https)

Serving only rendezvous over https is not enough to run AI on https. You need a WebRTC connection.

ewpatton · January 20, 2020, 5:05pm

If you’re running the rendezvous server over HTTPS only, the two devices won’t be able to negotiate a WebRTC connection if all the references aren’t updated. Make sure that you change the rendezvous server location to HTTPS both on the website and in the companion app.