Evothings and ddp - meteor

Question

We are trying to connect our evothings app up to a meteor server.
To do this we are using a lib called asteroid. However we are unable to connect and run methods. We are absolutly sure this is not a server issue since we have some separate client code for testing that works flawlessly with it.
Evothings says it should work with websockets, and we aren't getting any error output, but all our method calls are returning nothing.
Here is the code:
var _asteroid = require('asteroid');
var Asteroid = (0, _asteroid.createClass)('password-login');
var asteroid = new Asteroid({ endpoint: 'wss://[url]/websocket' });
var currentLogin = null;
$('#login').submit(function(event) {
event.preventDefault();
login($('#login_username').val(), $('#login_password').val());
});
$('#create').submit(function(event) {
event.preventDefault();
newUser($('#create_username').val(), $('#create_password').val(), $('#create_id').val());
});
$('#occupy').click(function(event) {
setStatus(0);
});
$('#vacant').click(function(event) {
setStatus(1);
});
$('#refreash').click(function() {
getEmptyRooms();
});
window.newUser = function (username, password, roomId) {
$('#create_error').text('');
asteroid.call("accounts.newUser", username, password, roomId).then(function (result) {
console.log("Success");
login(username, password);
}).catch(function (error) {
console.log("Error");
console.error(error);
$('#create_error').text(error.message);
});
}
window.login = function (username, password) {
$('#login_error').text('');
asteroid.loginWithPassword({ username: username, password: password }).then(function (result) {
console.log(result);
currentLogin = result;
$('#current').html('Current User: ' + username);
}).catch(function (error) {
console.log("Error");
console.error(error);
$('#login_error').text(error.message);
});;
}
window.getEmptyRooms = function () {
asteroid.call("rooms.getAvailable").then(function (result) {
console.log(result);
$('#room_list').empty();
for(i = 0; i < result.length; i++) {
$('#room_list').append('<li>' + result[i] + '</li>');
}
}).catch(function (error) {
console.log("Error");
console.error(error);
});
}
window.setStatus = function (status) {
$('#status_error').text('');
if (currentLogin != null) {
asteroid.call("rooms.setStatus", status).then(function (result) {
console.log(result);
}).catch(function (error) {
console.log("Error");
console.error(error);
$('#status_error').text(error.message);
});
} else {
console.log('please login first');
$('#status_error').text('please login first');
}
}

Answer 1

As far as I know, the require() function works only in node.js, not in browser environment such as Evothings Viewer or Cordova, so you'll need some alternative means of loading the "asteroid" lib. Browserify?
How did you look for error output? The Evothings Tools window? If so, did you add this snippet to your index.html file?
<script>
// Redirect console.log to Evothings Workbench.
if (window.hyper && window.hyper.log) { console.log = hyper.log }
</script>
Perhaps this error isn't exclusive to the Evothings environment. Have you tested the app in a regular web browser?

Answer 2

Are you using proper certs?
Self signed will not work. The Evothings app is served via wss and since it runs "headless" so to speak (not a normal browser) it can't ask the user about allowing a self signed cert, so it will fail. Note that AFAIK ANY issue with the cert will make it fail.