carbonaro / thingies

Simple Node.js backed connected device manager

thingies

Simple Node.js backed connected device manager

Usage

Register your device by adding an authorization key in key in Redis:

HSET authorized_keys <your_key> <your_app_name>

For instance, assuming I want to refer to my Raspberry Pi as my_raspberry_pi and git it the key:

HSET authorized_keys 5eec8e1caba298af9cb3ba60cf956c4f98ea2d1f my_raspberry_pi

On my Raspberry Pi, make sure to send a POST request on my server

POST /my_raspberry_pi?key=5eec8e1caba298af9cb3ba60cf956c4f98ea2d1f

With the following params sent in the request body:

• private_ip
• public_ip

For example:

curl -X POST 'http://example.com/my_raspberry_pi?key=5eec8e1caba298af9cb3ba60cf956c4f98ea2d1f' \
    -d 'private_ip=192.168.0.1' \
    -d 'public_ip=8.8.8.8'

You can put that in a cron or use the thingup.sh script. First argument is the URI pointing to your thing. Second argument is the key.

script/thingup.sh http://example.com/my_raspberry_by 5eec8e1caba298af9cb3ba60cf956c4f98ea2d1f

Install

Though ruby is not required to run the thingies server, Capistrano recipes are provided for an easy forever-based deploy.