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rajanchandi on July 4, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Ruma, a Matrix homeserver written in Rust

The problem with HTTP is that it drains 11 times more battery on a mobile phone than something like MQTT.

Arathorn on July 4, 2016 | [–]

As Perceptes says, Matrix is designed to have modular transports. So if you want to use MQTT or CoAP or WebSockets or whatever for the client/server API, then go for it :) PRs welcome!

gmfawcett on July 4, 2016 | | [–]

Can you give any evidence to support that statement?

akerro on July 4, 2016 | [–]

[sources required]

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