diff --git a/crates/lox-distributor/Cargo.toml b/crates/lox-distributor/Cargo.toml
index 1e9f513..3050f2b 100644
--- a/crates/lox-distributor/Cargo.toml
+++ b/crates/lox-distributor/Cargo.toml
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ edition = "2021"
 base64 = "0.13"
 hyper = { version = "0.14.24", features = ["server"] }
 hex_fmt = "0.3"
-tokio = { version = "1", features = ["full", "macros", "signal"] }
+tokio = { version = "1", features = ["full", "macros", "signal", "sync"] }
 rand = "0.7"
 serde = { version = "1.0", features = ["derive"] }
 serde_with = "1.9.1"
diff --git a/crates/lox-distributor/config.json b/crates/lox-distributor/config.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..177e5a2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/crates/lox-distributor/config.json
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+{
+    "endpoint": "http://127.0.0.1:7100/resource-stream",
+    "name": "https",
+    "token": "HttpsApiTokenPlaceholder",
+    "types": [
+        "obfs2",
+        "scramblesuit"
+    ]
+}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/crates/lox-distributor/src/main.rs b/crates/lox-distributor/src/main.rs
index 3932211..e3bbd23 100644
--- a/crates/lox-distributor/src/main.rs
+++ b/crates/lox-distributor/src/main.rs
@@ -1,9 +1,3 @@
-use std::{
-    convert::Infallible,
-    net::SocketAddr,
-    sync::{Arc, Mutex},
-};
-
 use hyper::{
     body,
     body::Bytes,
@@ -16,11 +10,20 @@ use lox::bridge_table::{BridgeLine, ENC_BUCKET_BYTES};
 use lox::proto;
 use lox::{BridgeAuth, BridgeDb, OPENINV_LENGTH};
 use rand::RngCore;
-use rdsys_backend::start_stream;
+use rdsys_backend::{proto::ResourceDiff, start_stream, ResourceStream};
 use serde::{Deserialize, Serialize};
+use std::{
+    convert::Infallible,
+    env,
+    fs::File,
+    io::BufReader,
+    net::SocketAddr,
+    sync::{Arc, Mutex},
+};
 
 use serde_json;
 use serde_with::serde_as;
+use tokio::{spawn, sync::mpsc};
 
 #[serde_as]
 #[derive(Serialize, Deserialize)]
@@ -36,6 +39,13 @@ pub struct EncBridgeTable {
     etable: Vec<[u8; ENC_BUCKET_BYTES]>,
 }
 
+#[derive(Debug, Deserialize)]
+struct ResourceInfo {
+    endpoint: String,
+    name: String,
+    token: String,
+    types: Vec<String>,
+}
 // Populate Bridgedb from rdsys
 
 /// Create a random BridgeLine for testing ONLY. Do not use in production!
@@ -300,28 +310,46 @@ async fn shutdown_signal() {
 }
 
 // Initial bridgedb setup then:
-// Listen for updates and return new bridges to be added to the bridgedb
-async fn load_bridges() {
-    let endpoint = String::from("http://127.0.0.1:7100/resource-stream");
-    let name = String::from("https");
-    let token = String::from("HttpsApiTokenPlaceholder"); //Bring in from commmand line
-    let types = vec![String::from("obfs2"), String::from("scramblesuit")];
-    let rx = start_stream(endpoint, name, token, types).await.unwrap();
-    for diff in rx {
-        println!("Received diff: {:?}", diff); //send this through a channel
-    }
-}
+// Listen for updates and return new bridges to be added to the bridged
 
+// Run with cargo run -- config.json
 #[tokio::main(worker_threads = 2)]
 async fn main() {
+    let args: Vec<String> = env::args().collect();
+    let file = File::open(&args[1]).expect("Should have been able to read config.json file");
+    let reader = BufReader::new(file);
+    // Read the JSON contents of the file as a ResourceInfo
+    let rtype: ResourceInfo = serde_json::from_reader(reader).unwrap();
 
-//
-    tokio::spawn(async move { load_bridges().await; });
-   // let new_bridgedb = task::spawn(load_bridges());
+    // pass in distribution of open invite vs. hot spare buckets?
     let num_buckets = 5;
-    // Create and initialize a new db and lox_auth
+    let hot_spare_buckets = 5;
     let mut bridgedb = BridgeDb::new();
     let mut lox_auth = BridgeAuth::new(bridgedb.pubkey);
+
+    //Sender is resource stream and receiver is bridgedb function (add_openinv_bridges)
+    let (mut tx, mut rx) = mpsc::channel(100);
+    // to populate the bridge db
+    spawn(async move {
+        let rstream = start_stream(rtype.endpoint, rtype.name, rtype.token, rtype.types)
+            .await
+            .unwrap();
+        for diff in rstream {
+            println!("Received diff: {:?}", diff); //send this through a channel
+            tx.send(diff).await.expect("can not add to bridgedb)")
+        }
+    });
+
+    spawn(async move {
+        while let Some(resourcediff) = rx.recv().await {
+            println!("received: {:?}", resourcediff);
+            //parse resource diff into Bridgeline
+            //add open inv bridges
+            // users.push(user);
+        }
+    });
+    // let new_bridgedb = task::spawn(load_bridges());
+    // Create and initialize a new db and lox_auth
     // Make 3 x num_buckets open invitation bridges, in sets of 3
     for _ in 0..num_buckets {
         let bucket = [random(), random(), random()];