RaspberryDoorbell

The server side of the wireless doorbell project (raspberry running a tcp node server)

See also http://github.com/Rubinat/doorbell for documentation.

App

There's a status app at http://bel.vcxl.nl:8081. There's an API at: http://bel.vcxl.nl:8081/api/v1/status

You can run the app on your computer by cloning this repository. Make sure you have installed nodejs and npm and run npm install

Launch the app by running make on your computer.

The app uses the 'React' framework. app/main.js is the main source file.

Use make dist to create a minified version of the app. Then use make deploy to upload it using SCP to the server (RaspberryPi).

Login through SSH

ssh pi@bel.vcxl.nl

View logs:

tail -f /tmp/bell.log
tail -f /tmp/bell-error.log

API

GET: http://bel.vcxl.nl:8081/api/v1/status

POST: http://bel.vcxl.nl:8081/api/v1/ring/F1.19

Set fixed IP for RaspberryPI at VCXL

(values retrieved by following these steps)

sudo nano /etc/network/interfaces
......
iface eth0 inet static
address 217.149.135.9
netmask 255.255.255.192
network 217.149.135.0
gateway 217.149.135.62
broadcast 217.149.135.63
dns-nameservers 8.8.8.8 8.8.4.4
.......
sudo reboot

Install gpio-admin

At the time of writing there is an open pull request for gpio-admin by VipSaran which solves a filepath issue to the gpio folders. I added VipSaran's fork as a submodule to our repository. So clone our repository recursively or use git submodule update --init. Make sure to make and sudo make install the gpio-project. Then run our initports.sh script to initialize the gpio pins.

Autostart the bell script

Make a symbolic link to bell.sh

sudo ln -s ~/RaspberryDoorbell/bell.sh /etc/init.d/bell

Then run sudo update-rc.d bell defaults (as described here)