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VibeLight Gateway

The VibeLight Gateway transforms your Raspberry Pi to a cool ambiance light gateway. It allows to control WS2812B RGB-LED with your smartphone, tablet computer or normal desktop. By default the system provides some cool effects like:

  • Ambiance light (choose between 16 million colors)
  • Rainbow effect
  • Party mode with adjustable speed (beats per minute)

The system has a quite simple architecture (only HTML and Python), you can extend it easy with own effects if you want.

The effects can be easily controlled with your smartphone:

VibeLight Gateway web app

The party mode with adjustable speed:

VibeLight Gateway party mode

Package building

Note: This should work properly on Raspbian / Debian 8 (Jessie).

First install the packages for building:

~$ sudo apt-get update
~$ sudo apt-get install devscripts dh-systemd python-setuptools

Than clone this repository:

~$ git clone https://github.com/bastianraschke/vibelightgateway.git

Build the package:

~$ cd ./vibelightgateway/src/
~$ debuild

Installation

First install the NeoPixel library from Adafruit according to the documentation:

~$ sudo apt-get install build-essential python-dev git scons swig

~$ git clone https://github.com/jgarff/rpi_ws281x.git
~$ cd ./rpi_ws281x/
~$ scons

~$ cd ./python/
~$ sudo python setup.py install

Than install the built VibeLight Gateway Debian package:

~$ sudo dpkg -i ../vibelight-gateway*.deb

Install missing dependencies:

~$ sudo apt-get -f install

Deployment

The last step is the deployment of the web app (HTML files) via a normal webserver. Furthermore the VibeLight Gateway websocket server should be proxied with the webserver aswell.

Install Nginx and delete default configuration:

~$ sudo apt-get install nginx
~$ sudo rm /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default

Copy and activate the provided example configuration:

~$ cd /usr/share/doc/vibelight-gateway/examples/configuration/nginx/

~$ sudo cp ./nginx.conf /etc/nginx/nginx.conf
~$ sudo cp ./sites-enabled/vibelightgateway.conf /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/vibelightgateway.conf
~$ sudo ln -s /etc/nginx/sites-available/vibelightgateway.conf /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/vibelightgateway.conf

Provide the correct directory for Nginx and restart:

~$ sudo rm /usr/share/nginx/www
~$ sudo ln -s /usr/share/vibelight-gateway/webapp/ /usr/share/nginx/www

~$ sudo systemctl restart nginx.service

From now on the web app should be accessable on the machines network address.

Questions

If you have any questions to this project, just ask me via email:

bastian.raschke@posteo.de