diff --git a/src/consumer.mjs b/src/consumer.mjs
index e57b098..71aabd8 100644
--- a/src/consumer.mjs
+++ b/src/consumer.mjs
@@ -5,13 +5,14 @@ import bunyan from 'bunyan'
 import JsonStream from './json'
 
 export default class Consumer extends Socket {
-  constructor (path, opts={}) {
+  constructor (path={}, opts={}) {
     super()
     // set or tcp socket
     if (typeof(path)!=='string') {
       opts = path
-      this.host = opts.host || '127.0.0.1'  // TODO log a warning about host on same machine
-      this.port = opts.port || 8080
+      if (!path.host || !path.port) opts = path
+      this.host = path.host || '127.0.0.1'  // TODO log a warning about host on same machine
+      this.port = path.port || 8080
     }  else  this.path = path
     this.packet = {
       _process: async (packet) => {
diff --git a/src/socket.mjs b/src/socket.mjs
index 59d6279..98455e5 100644
--- a/src/socket.mjs
+++ b/src/socket.mjs
@@ -7,27 +7,27 @@ import bunyan from 'bunyan'
 import JsonStream from './json'
 
 export default class Socket extends Server {
-  constructor (path, opts={}) {
+  constructor (path={},opts={}) {
     super()
     // set or tcp socket
     if (typeof(path)!=='string') {
-      opts = path
-      this.listen_opts = { host: opts.host || '0.0.0.0', port: opts.port || 8080}
+      if (!path.host || !path.port) opts = path
+      this.listen_opts = { host: path.host || '0.0.0.0', port: path.port || 8080}
     } else  this.listen_opts = { path: path }
-    // default packet processing
+    // default packet processing - simple echo server
     this.packet = {
       _process: (packet) => {
         packet.res='echoed'
         return packet }
     }
-    // logging
+    // Change to environment based configuration for logger
     this.log_file=opts.log_file || './socket.log'
     this.log_opts = {streams:[]}
     this.log_opts.name = opts.name ? opts.name : 'uci-socket'
     // if (opts.log===1)// this.log_opts.streams.push({level: 'info',path: this.log_file })
     if (opts.log) this.log_opts.streams.push({level: 'info',stream: process.stdout})
     this.log = bunyan.createLogger(this.log_opts)
-    //binding
+    //self binding
     this.listen = this.listen.bind(this)
     this.create = this.create.bind(this)