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We put up some holiday lights in the Mission Street windows. (We call them Holiday Lights both as | We put up some holiday lights in the Mission Street windows. (We call them Holiday Lights both as an ecumenical gesture of goodwill as well as to annoy the "War on Christmas" wingnuts.) | ||
Naturally, you can control them on the web using the bare-bones interface at URL: http://lights. | Naturally, you can control them on the web using the bare-bones interface at URL: http://lights.netisland.net:8080/ | ||
This is served by a pure Python webserver running on a Fit-PC Ubuntu micro-PC. Lights are switched with a 8-channel serial-controlled relay board. | This is served by a pure Python webserver running on a Fit-PC Ubuntu micro-PC. Lights are switched with a 8-channel serial-controlled relay board. | ||
Each of the four windows has two strings of LEDs, white and colored. Facing Mission St, the white LEDs on the leftmost window are on channel 0, the colored ones on channel 1. The next window over has white on channel 2 and so forth. | Each of the four windows has two strings of LEDs, white and colored. Facing Mission St, the white LEDs on the leftmost window are on channel 0, the colored ones on channel 1. The next window over has white on channel 2 and so forth. | ||
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Basic info: | Basic info: | ||
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/home/lights/sequence | /home/lights/sequence | ||
The | The file read by filelooop.py that defines the light | ||
sequence currently active. The first line of this file | sequence currently active. The first line of this file | ||
defines how long (in milliseconds) we | defines how long (in milliseconds) we should sleep before | ||
advancing to the next state. The rest of the file is a | advancing to the next state. The rest of the file is a | ||
list of states to iterate through. For example: | list of states to iterate through. For example: | ||
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the rest are off. In the third state, the third light is | the rest are off. In the third state, the third light is | ||
on, and the rest are off. etc. | on, and the rest are off. etc. | ||
(There's code in place in filelooop.py to also support | |||
state lines in the syntax of "<state> <delay>", to sleep | |||
for an amount of time different than the "global delay", | |||
but I haven't actually tested this behavior yet.) | |||
/home/lights/*.seq | /home/lights/*.seq | ||
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back to / (the directory listing) after a few seconds, | back to / (the directory listing) after a few seconds, | ||
or something. | or something. | ||