Finally an ios terminal app without the feature creep. Nice and functional. Well done, team.
Show HN: Echo, an iOS SSH+mosh client built on Ghostty
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Re: Show HN: Echo, an iOS SSH+mosh client built on Ghostty
#62Most iOS SSH clients feel like afterthoughts with janky keyboard handling. Curious how you're dealing with the input layer, that's always been the hardest part to get right on iOS
Re: Show HN: Echo, an iOS SSH+mosh client built on Ghostty
#63I will give it a spin on my Apple Vision Pro.
Have been trying ttyd, which could really be great as is it browser based and hence I can have as many windows as I want, but a safari bug on iOS/ipados/visionos is a showstopper: specifically, safari sends keycode 13 events (enter key) when pressing ctrl-c on a hardware keyboard. So emacs, interrupting fg processes etc are problematic.
I’ll submit a pr to xterm.js for a workaround.
Re: Show HN: Echo, an iOS SSH+mosh client built on Ghostty
#64Hm I feel gypped with the mosh aspect. I was expecting to be able to mosh into a server, context switch, and resume the same session later. It doesn't resume, it just requires you establish a new session. Meh.
This is not explained at all on their website.
Re: Show HN: Echo, an iOS SSH+mosh client built on Ghostty
#65Does it allow truly persistent mosh connections? I can't remember which iOS client it was, but I've used one which forgot I was connected if I left the app for long enough. The mosh process was still running on the server, but my iPad had forgotten how to talk to it.
No. Just tried it and it doesn't.
Re: Show HN: Echo, an iOS SSH+mosh client built on Ghostty
#66The description says it supports SSH certificate authentication, but I can’t see where to configure trusted CAs.
Re: Show HN: Echo, an iOS SSH+mosh client built on Ghostty
#67I'll spend the $3 to try it out. Any real different than Terminus? That seemed to be the latest and greatest last I was shopping for an iOS SSH client. Also, maybe just because its new (I dont realy know how App Store search works) but searching "Echo" and "Echo SSH" returned way too many Amazon/Alexa related apps, and then many other terminals before yours.
Not saying there aren't things the dev could do to improve that situation, but I experienced the same thing and was confused before I scrolled back up to see that the app store "helpfully" displayed: "showing results for echo show, search for echo ssh instead?"
Re: Show HN: Echo, an iOS SSH+mosh client built on Ghostty
#68Is there a way to connect to non-standard SSH port that i’m missing?
figured it out. in the connection box just append :port-number to the hostname/ip address, e.g. user@server:7 to have it try port 7. you should see it reflected in the connection detail text below the box
Re: Show HN: Echo, an iOS SSH+mosh client built on Ghostty
#69Unfortunately, I can't connect to my NixOS machines as their sshd is hardened to only support ETM MAC by default, which Echo doesn't support (as per their troubleshooting doc). Any idea when other MACs would be supported?
Re: Show HN: Echo, an iOS SSH+mosh client built on Ghostty
#70Does it have the same issue with key repeat? It's a long standing iOS bug, but some apps seem to fix it (somehow). Without the fix, vim ends up being essentially unusable since I can't press and hold on the cursor movement keys. iSH, for example, hits the bug and it severely limits the usefulness of the app.
Last time I checked system-level key repeat is only for arrows, space, enter, — not letters. Some apps just implement it manually, but yeah. Don’t fool yourself into using iPad as your work machine. Buy a macbook.
As someone interested in mobile workflows, say more?
Where are you running into barriers on iPad for your work? (I believe it, plenty of examples - curious what yours is!)