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Lightmanagement Server to control room lighting

Setup

You will need a recent version of node js (http://nodejs.org/). To configure, install and start run:

npm install
node setup.js

Tested on Raspbian and OSX.

Install on Raspberry Pi Zero

Make sure the Device is connected to the network.

sudo apt-get install mongodb
git clone https://github.com/mostley/lightnet.git
npm install
node setup.js

Choose local as DB Option.

Features

  • Discovery of handlers
  • Management of available lights
  • controling lights via 3 dimensional coordinate system

Handlers

  • ESP8266
    • autoconnect to Wifi (including Access Point for credentials)
    • autodiscovery (registers itself at lighnet server)
    • registers itself at DNS
    • support for WS2812, WS2801 and APA102 LED Strips

TODO

  • check whether light count has changed (in comparison with what is saved in the API) after restart
  • ping handlers if still available

Topology

  • nodes (e.g. esp8266) with installed Handler
  • Hub (e.g. raspberry pi zero) with installed Server
  • Devices (e.g. android) with installed Client (not yet, use webinterface for now)

Handshake

  • Nodes listen for multicast message on 224.0.0.1:3535
  • Server multicasts a message containing "lightnet:"
  • Nodes answer with a TCP message to :3636 with ";;\r\n"
  • Server pushes the changes of the node list to the clients (TODO)
  • On User interaction Client sends a POST message to the Server

Tips

use IPTables to NAT map port 80 to port 4060 where the webinterface runs. Like this for example:

sudo iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -i wlan0 -p tcp --dport 80 -j REDIRECT --to-port 4060

Append this line to your /etc/rc.local if you want this to survive a reboot (without sudo).

API

While running the API offers a very rudimentary interface documentation page under http://<yourserver>:4050/apiDocs/.

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