HouseLights

A web server to control lights

Overview

This web server controls lights based on a schedule. The actual control of the lights is provided by a "control" web service and the location for each light is retrieved based on the HousePortal discovery mechanism.

See the gallery for a view of HouseLights' web UI.

Examples of control web services compatible with the server are orvibo, HouseKasa and HouseRelays.

Schedule times can be provided as time of day (format HH:MM), relative time after sunset (format +HH:MM) or relative time before sunrise (format -HH:MM).

Installation

• Install the OpenSSL development package(s).
• Install echttp.
• Install houseportal.
• Clone this GitHub repository.
• make
• sudo make install

You will need to have at least one control service installed and running.

Configuration

The lights schedule can be edited from the HouseLights web interface.

Panel

The web interface includes a Panel page (/lights/panel.html) that has no menu and only shows the current lights, each as one big button to tun the device on and off. This page is meant for a phone screen, typically a shortcut on the phone's home screen. (Because HousePortal redirects the URL, it is recommended to turn the phone in airplane mode when creating the shortcut from the web browser.)

Debian Packaging

The provided Makefile supports building private Debian packages. These are not official packages:

• They do not follow all Debian policies.

• They are not built using Debian standard conventions and tools.

• The packaging is not separate from the upstream sources, and there is no source package.

To build a Debian package, use the debian-package target:

make debian-package