![Mobius Logo](dark_logo.png)
Mobius is a cross-platform command line Hotline client and server implemented in Golang.
The goal of Mobius server is to make it simple to run a Hotline server on macOS, Linux, and Windows, with full compatibility for all popular Hotline clients.
The goal of the Mobius client is to make it fun and easy to connect to multiple Hotline servers through a cool retro terminal UI.
If you run Docker, you can quickly try out the Mobius server with the official image from Docker hub:
docker run --pull=always --rm -p 5500:5500 -p 5501:5501 jhalter/mobius-hotline-server:latest
This will start the Mobius server with the Hotline ports 5500 and 5501 exposed on localhost using a default configuration from the image.
To edit the configuration and serve files from your host OS, include the -v
option to setup a Docker bind mount:
export HLFILES=/Users/foo/HotlineFiles #
docker run --rm -p 5500:5500 -p 5501:5501 -v $HLFILES:/usr/local/var/mobius/config jhalter/mobius-hotline-server:latest -init
You'll now find a configuration directory on your host OS populated with a default configuration:
❯ ls -al $HLFILES
total 32
drwxr-xr-x 8 jhalter staff 256 Jun 12 17:11 .
drwxr-x---+ 49 jhalter staff 1568 Jun 12 17:11 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 jhalter staff 38 Jun 12 17:11 Agreement.txt
drwxr-xr-x 3 jhalter staff 96 Jun 12 17:11 Files
-rw-r--r-- 1 jhalter staff 19 Jun 12 17:11 MessageBoard.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 jhalter staff 15 Jun 12 17:11 ThreadedNews.yaml
drwxr-xr-x 4 jhalter staff 128 Jun 12 17:11 Users
-rw-r--r-- 1 jhalter staff 313 Jun 12 17:11 config.yaml
Edit config.yaml
to get started personalizing your server.
For Mac OS the easiest path to installation is through Homebrew.
To install the client:
brew install jhalter/mobius-hotline-client/mobius-hotline-client
Then run mobius-hotline-client
to get started.
To install the server:
brew install jhalter/mobius-hotline-server/mobius-hotline-server
After installation mobius-hotline-server
will be installed at $HOMEBREW_PREFIX/bin/mobius-hotline-server
and should be in your $PATH.
The server config file directory is under $HOMEBREW_PREFIX/var/mobius
which by default contains:
/opt/homebrew/mobius/config/MessageBoard.txt
/opt/homebrew/var/mobius/config/config.yaml
/opt/homebrew/var/mobius/config/ThreadedNews.yaml
/opt/homebrew/var/mobius/config/Agreement.txt
/opt/homebrew/var/mobius/config/Users/guest.yaml
/opt/homebrew/var/mobius/config/Users/admin.yaml
Edit /usr/local/var/mobius/config/config.yaml
to change your server name and other settings.
Edit /usr/local/var/mobius/config/Agreement.txt
to set your server agreement.
Run mobius-hotline-server -help
for usage options.
Download a compiled release for your architecture from the Releases page or follow build from source instructions
TODO
To build from source, run:
make all
Then grab your desired build from dist