Bellacoola - A 21st Century Doorbell

Description

What you have on your door is a 20th century doorbell - outdated, stupid, and sub-par. Bellacoola brings your doorbell to the 21st century tech wizardry.

Using a Raspberry Pi, Bellacoola can make your doorbell:

• Silence doorbell, and instead have notifications sent to users' phones
• Customize doorbell ring tone and playlist

Codebase Structure

The repository is organized into three directories:

• server: Server code hosted on Heroku or locally, used as API endpoint to send text messages
• client: Mobile app for Android or iOS devices
• pi: Client on Rasperry Pi to emulate a doorbell

Installing

To get the code run:

git clone https://github.com/eecs394-s16/Bellacoola

Building and Deploying

All 3 components of the app must be deployed for it to work.

####Mobile Client: #####Deploy:

• Install Supersonic following instructions here
• Install NodeJS 4 and NPM 2
• Run the following:

npm install steroids -g
# in the client directory:
npm install 
steroids connect

A browser tab should open with a QR code.

#####Install on mobile directly:

• Download the Appgyver Scanner app
• Scan the QR code here

####Server:

• To deploy to heroku from github, follow these instructions

Raspberry Pi

• Clone the code base
• Install the following:

sudo pip install requests
sudo pip install python-firebase

• Edit the ENDPOINT variable in pi_client.py to point to your Heroku URL
• Run the following in the pi directory:

python pi_client.py

####Known Limitations

• System currently only works for a single doorbell
• No support for separate user accounts or access control
• Firebase URL is hard-coded and developer would need to replace references
• No in-app support for initializing user data in Firebase - entries for users and doorbells currently must be created manually in the database