Headshot

Python script that logs the device connections in the physical router in Garaj Coworking Space to cloud.

• It first authenticate to the Airties router, and then queries the connected WiFi devices in the network.
• The count of the connected devices is uploaded to a table in Parse.
• And the connectivity information is given as an output as stated in Space API
• Space API state is updated with a weird GET call to a weird Space API endpoint.

Setup

The project is just a basic script that gets the information from the router and sends to Parse servers using ParsePy project.

• Setup a computer (likely a Raspberry PI)
• Install pip

sudo apt-get install python-pip

• Install ParsePy

pip install git+https://github.com/dgrtwo/ParsePy.git

• Install Python Requests

pip install requests

• Clone the project.
• Create a config.py file with the following constants:

APPLICATION_ID = ""
REST_API_KEY = ""
MASTER_KEY = ""

SPACE_API_KEY = ""

router = {
	'ip': '',
	'user': '',
	'password': ''
}

• Add a cron job for this script to run in every X mins.

Future Work

• Instead of just sending the number of devices, MAC Addresses can be logged.
  • To do this, last MAC Addresses can be cached (or requeried through Parse) and be compared with the new ones.
  • Then, connectivity losses and new connection will be logged.
• Space API cached endpoint it weird. Instead, we can setup a really small endpoint (which can reside in Raspberry PI or can be a Cloud Code in Parse) that outputs reqiured Space API format.
  • That way we can output detailed information about the open/close state of the space e.g. last change timestamp, devices connected.