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connected-lights
sample_pir-lights_rgb
docs/7_app.md
- Committer:
- iv123
- Date:
- 2017-06-18
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- 0:7a352727249b
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# Bringing it all together We’ve already built almost all of the pieces required for our lighting system. We now have: * The circuitry. * The firmware. * A connection to mbed Device Connector. * A way of talking from a node.js or Python app to the device. We can now combine everything by building a web app that allows us to control the lights from anywhere in the world. For convenience we built a node.js mobile web app for you, which is located here: [ARMmbed/connected-lights](https://github.com/ARMmbed/connected-lights/tree/master/webapp). The web app has the following features: * Lists all the lights under your account. * Changes the status of the light (from motion sensing to on/off). * Quickly changes colors. * Gets notifications whenever the PIR sensor detects movement. Here is a screenshot of the app running on an Android phone: ![Screenshot of the light control interface](assets/lights15.png) *Mobile interface with two lights connected. Tap the color to change it.* By tapping on the endpoint name we can quickly rename the light to something more friendly (like “living room”), and by clicking on the color we can pick a new light color from a color wheel. ## Installing the application To start the application, first download the application, either by: 1. Downloading the [application as a ZIP archive](https://github.com/ARMmbed/connected-lights/archive/master.zip). 1. Or by running `git clone https://github.com/armmbed/connected-lights` in your terminal. Then open ``main.js`` and paste in your mbed Device Connector Access Token on the first line. Next, open a terminal or the command prompt and navigate to the location where you extracted the application, and run: ``` $ cd connected-lights/webapp $ npm install $ node main.js ``` Open your web browser and go to http://localhost:5265 to see the application running. ## Konekuta The web application is built on top of [Konekuta](https://github.com/armmbed/konekuta), a framework for building dynamic web applications on top of mbed Device Connector. Konekuta solves a number of common problems with building connected applications, including state syncing, going offline/online, handling errors, and updating the UI when devices connect or disconnect from mbed Device Connector. Konekuta is open source and available on [GitHub](https://github.com/armmbed/konekuta).