lightshow

control leds of a Freifunk router

Features

• connect to Freifunk router via ssh
• turn on and off its leds

Requirements

Linux

• Python 3
• Pip for python 3
• Python modules : PyQT 5, pexpect, wrapt
• a FreifunkRouter

Installation

No builds available, you gotta build it yourself for now..

Linux

• Prepare your Freifunk router :

    make sure you get ssh access to your router
  

• Install python modules :

    sudo apt-get install python3 python3-pip python3-pyqt5
    sudo pip3 install pexpect
    sudo pip3 install wrapt
  

• check out this repository

    cd /your/install/path
    git clone https://github.com/IARI/lightshow.git
  

• run

    cd /your/install/path
    make 
  

  in the directory where you checked out the repo

Running

Linux

run the lightshow script from lightshow directory :

python3 lightshow.py

Scripting

In the main text window little programs can be written. A program is a series of statements separated by horizontal whitespace. when run, all statements will be executed in the order given. In the following an integer n references the n'th light starting with 0 A statement can be one of the following:

    * n             toggle light n
    
    * +n, -n        turn light n on (+) rsp. off (-)
    
    * s,s...        execute statements in one step
    
    * df            set the delay between commands to f seconds where f is a float (i.e. 0.5)
    
    * gi            goto i - continue execution with the ith statement of the program
    
    * pt            print text t to console
     
    * x             terminate program

Contact

Feel free to send an email to j.jarecki@gmx.de if you have any questions, remarks or if you find a bug.