Support/document how to use with Physical Web

[jonnor]

For instance to broadcast the Flowhub live-url to connect to the system. Probably using their mDNS support, as msgflo broker typically runs on Linux which can have Avahi etc.

[jonnor]

Seems first they need to fix google/physical-web#893

[bergie]

The other option is using Bluetooth. Should be reasonably easy to set up if running the MsgFlo coordinator on Raspberry Pi (like we will with https://github.com/c-base/c-flo):

https://medium.com/@urish/exploring-the-physical-web-without-buying-beacons-efae51e36c2e#.d4xwmmkxr

[bergie]

It seems one option would be UPnP/SSDP version of Physical Web, which is reasonably straightforward to support with Node.js without additional hardware.

However, see the discussion in google/physical-web#619

Right now it seems the SSDP discovery mechanism only works in the Physical Web Android app, not in Chrome.

Additionally, Physical Web requires HTTPS URLs, which will not work until we add wss support to MsgFlo coordinator. Related to noflo/noflo-ui#433

By sending a HTTPS URL, the runtime was found by the Android app: