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Trådfri Control Panel

This repository contains the source code for my latest hobby project: The Trådfri control panel.

TODO: Description

Requirements

  • Node 14.x
  • yarn

Running the app

First install dependencies with yarn install

To run the application in development mode:

yarn run dev

Or in production mode:

yarn build
yarn start

The client application runs on port 3000 when running the dev server. In development mode all fetch-requests to /api are proxied to localhost:8080 where the express server is hosted.

In production mode, the dist folder contents built by webpack will be served by the back-end server at localhost:8080. You can run the app in a different port in production by launching the app by setting the PORT environment variable.

Running in Docker

The Docker image can be build by running docker build with the project root as the build context.

The app can be run in Docker, but the container needs a way to access the network where the Trådfri gateway is connected to. In Linux hosts this can be achieved by running the container in the host machine's network with --network=host, given that the host machine is connected to the gateway's network.

The logs (/home/node/app/server/logs) and database (/home/node/app/server/data) folders can be mounted for peristence.

Registering gateways

When you launch the application the first time, you will be prompted with a setup wizard for registering your gateway.

Deploying to a remote server (like Raspberry Pi)

First make sure you have git, node (tested working with version 10.14), yarn and pm2 installed on your server. PM2 also has to be installed on the computer where you run the deployment.

The deployment is done over SSH so make sure you have a public key installed to your server to allow easier deployments without the need for passwords. More information about this can be found from PM2 deploy documentation

When you have created the deploy configuration, you can deploy the app with:

pm2 deploy production setup
pm2 deploy production

The env variables DEPLOY_BRANCH and DEPLOY_HOST need to be set before deploying.

To deploy a specific branch use:

pm2 deploy production ref origin/<BRANCH>

Development

Mock JSON server

A mock json-server can be used instead by running npm run dev-mock. Mock data will be served on http://localhost:8080.