ELK-BLEDOM

Control your chinese LED Controller with simple POST requests and Bluetooth Low-Energy (BLE)

Application for your phone

I recommend checking my other repo where I made a simple application using expo and react-native that you can use on your phone!
ELK-BLEDOM-APP

Turning on LEDs

Send post request to "http://yourip:5000/power" with the following request body: {"value": true}

Turning off LEDS

Send post request to "http://yourip:5000/power" with the following request body: {"value": false}

Changing color of LEDs

Send post request to "http://yourip:5000/color" with the following request body: { "color": "any colorname from colors.json" }

or alternatively you can specify a custom hex code with the following request body: { "color": "FF00FF", "mode": "custom" }

Changing brightness of LEDs

Send post request to "http://yourip:5000/brightness" with the following request body: { "value": 100 }

You can choose any number between 0 and 100.

Setup

Configuration

You can set the Bluetooth Address in "config/config.json" under "bid". You can also set which handle it should write to in "config"/config.sjon" under "handle" You can also specify an alternative device that it should use to communicate with, in "config/config.json" under "device"

Requirements

• Raspberry Pi with Bluetooth capability (with any linux os installed)
• gatttool sudo apt-get install bluetooth bluez libbluetooth-dev libudev-dev (not tested)
• some coding knowledge
• shelljs
• expressjs
• nodejs ( w3schools tutorial for installation )
• ( recommended ) pm2 npm install -g pm2

Installation

1. Edit the config files to your needs
2. Install the needed packages
3. Run using pm2 start index.js
4. Enjoy.