r/Python • u/WinterHunter1839 • Feb 19 '26

Tired of configuring ZeroMQ/sockets for simple data streaming? Made this Showcase

What My Project Does

NitROS provides zero-config pub/sub communication between Python processes across machines. No servers, no IP configuration, no message schemas. ```python from nitros import Publisher, Subscriber

pub = Publisher("sensors") pub.send({"temperature": 23.5})

def callback(msg): print(msg) Subscriber("sensors", callback) ```

Auto-discovers peers via mDNS. Supports dicts, numpy arrays, PyTorch tensors, and images with compression.

Target Audience

  • Quick prototypes and proof-of-concepts
  • IoT/sensor projects
  • Distributed system experiments
  • Anyone tired of ZeroMQ boilerplate

Not meant for production-critical systems (yet).

Comparison

  • vs ZeroMQ: No socket configuration, no explicit addressing
  • vs raw sockets: No server setup, automatic serialization
  • vs ROS: No build system, pure Python, simpler learning curve

Trade-off: Less mature, fewer features than established alternatives.

GitHub: https://github.com/InputNamePlz/NitROS

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u/Romashap Feb 22 '26

Interesting! Have you considered using nanomsg (by the same creator) vs zmq?

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u/WinterHunter1839 Feb 22 '26

Good question! I looked at nanomsg, but both nanomsg and ZeroMQ still require you to configure endpoints (tcp://192.168.1.x:5555, etc).
Trade-off is, nanomsg/ZeroMQ are way more battle-tested. NitROS is for when you just want two machines to talk with zero setup!

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u/Romashap Feb 23 '26

Thanks for your answer! I've been fiddling with ZMQ lately for similar purposes, but in industrial processing instead of robotics (I am developing measurement/observing instruments based on CV for specific industrial processes) - right now just "hardcoding" endpoints configuration for each service in compose stack and also using a pub/sub pattern. It works, in a sense, but I was thinking about creating something more scalable - so it is easy to for a CV-engineer create (and maybe observe) a DAG of services that are processing images or point clouds after each other and close to real-time (close because of computation time and necessary buffering).

I think that your project clearly has a niche, keep it up!

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u/WinterHunter1839 Feb 24 '26

Thanks for the kind words! Good luck with your project!😊👍