Marvin

Marvin is a character for your home that enhances your life. Marvin is software that runs on a beaglebone along with a cape that contains a number of added sensors (available upon request).

This github repository contains Marvin's software. Marvin currently has the following abilities:

• to interact via a web interface
• to control hue light bulbs
• to detect motion via its motion sensor
  • turn on nightlights upon sensing motion when in sleep mode
  • track history of motion
• to detect ambient light levels via its light sensor
  • turn on lights when it gets dark if in awake mode
• to track and key off of activity
  • sleeping causes Marvin to turn off ligths and turn on motion triggered nightlights
  • waking causes Marvin to slowly fade on lights (AKA sunrise)
• to schedule lighting or activity transitions for different times of the day and week
• to turn on and off various behaviours
  • nightlights switch for turning off motion triggered nightlights
  • schedule switch for turning off schedule
• to detect presence

Components

• marvin - package containing core functionality
• marvin/web - package containing web interface
• marvin/marvin - package containing program

Install

get ubuntu

If you are installing Marvin on your BeagleBone we've been using 13.04 from ARMhf.

install build tools

sudo apt-get install gcc g++ make mercurial

install latest golang

Marvin is written in Go so you will need a Go environment to build and install it. You will probably want to put the GOPATH and GOROOT environment variables in your ~/.profile.

hg clone -u release https://code.google.com/p/go
sudo mv go /opt/go
cd /opt/go
./all.bash
mkdir $HOME/go
export GOPATH=$HOME/go
export GOROOT=/opt/go

install latest nodejs

Marvin's needs a nodejs environment for managing external javascript and css dependencies using Bower.

wget http://nodejs.org/dist/v0.10.13/node-v0.10.13.tar.gz
tar xvfz node-v0.10.13.tar.gz
cd node-v0.10.13
./configure --without-snapshot
sudo make install

install marvin

go get -v -u github.com/eikeon/marvin/marvin
export MARVIN_HOME=$GOPATH/src/github.com/eikeon/marvin
export PATH=$MARVIN_HOME/web/node_modules/.bin:$PATH
pushd $MARVIN_HOME/web; make install; popd
sudo cp conf/marvin.json /etc/marvin.json
sudo cp conf/marvin.conf /etc/init/marvin.conf
sudo start marvin
# point browser at http://{your-hostname}:8000

Other Marvin channels

Marvin Magazine