TPLink LightBulb HTTP

Basic controls for TP-Link light bulbs over HTTP

The communication is handled using the tplink-lightbulb library.

What does this do?

This allows for the following actions:

Light actions

• Light on
  • GET
  • /light/on
• Light off
  • GET
  • /light/off
• Light brightness to 100
  • GET
  • /light/brightness/100
• Light brightness to 50
  • GET
  • /light/brightness/50
• Light details
  • GET
  • /light/details

Display actions (refer to displayOffFile variable info)

• Display on
  • GET
  • /display/on
• Display off
  • GET
  • /display/off

Configuration

Installing dependencies

Run the following to install express and tplink-lightbulb dependencies:

npm install

Configuring the server

There are values of variables that you may need to adjust (especially the IP address of the lightbulb).

Variable	Description
hostname	IP address of TP-Link light bulb
port	Port number of the HTTP server that the script would be hosting
writeToFile	Output last action status to file
statusFile	Path to last action status file -- intended to use with SSD1306-Display-SysInfo to display the status on a display
displayOffFile	Path to display off file -- intended to use with SSD1306-Display-SysInfo to control the display visibility