Editing Holiday lights

We put up some holiday lights in the Mission Street windows. (We call them Holiday Lights both as a gesture of ecumenical goodwill and to annoy the "War on Christmas" wingnuts.)

Naturally, you can control them on the web using the bare-bones interface at URL: http://lights.netisland.net/

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.

You can find the code in [http://github.com/jbm9/batshitlights github]

Basic info:

 /home/lights/server/filelooop.py

This is the script that runs forever, and does the Actual
Work of switching the lights on and off.  It reads the
file /home/lights/sequence, which defines the light
sequence, and then uses the RelayControl class to
communicate with the external relay bank.

 /home/lights/sequence

The text file read by filelooop.py that defines the light
sequence currently active.  The first line of this file
defines how long (in milliseconds) we wait before
advancing to the next state.  The rest of the file is a
list of states to iterate through.  For example:

 1000
 10000000
 01000000
 00100000
 00010000
 00001000
 00000100
 00000010
 00000001

We sleep for 1 second (1000 milliseconds) between states.
Each line of 8 digits controls the relays, one char per channel. 
In the first state, the first light is on, and the rest
are off.  In the second state, the second light is on, and
the rest are off.  In the third state, the third light is
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

A list of pre-programed sequences.

 /home/lights/server/webserver.py

A full webserver/framework implementation, currently
configured to listen on port 8080.  When you request "/",
it returns a list of hyperlinks to each of the *.seq files
in lights's home directory.  If you click on one of those
links, it copies the contents from the *.seq file to
/home/lights/sequence, so filelooop.py will start
processing it instead of whatever it was previously
processing.

 /home/lights/set.html

When you use webserver.py to request a *.seq file, it
<nowiki>"<h1>Thanks!</h1>"</nowiki>.  We should make it look pretty, and
probably also have a meta refresh to redirect the user
back to / (the directory listing) after a few seconds,
or something.

=Direct Line=
There's a really fun "direct line" into the control of the lights:

: http://lights.noisebridge.net/run_one?delay=1000&seq=0102040810204080
: http://lights.noisebridge.net/run_one?delay=500&seq=B56F9BE6
: etc

Hint: hex works

A message...

: http://lights.noisebridge.net/run_one?delay=500&seq=22882288220802802088a2a82a8aa2a82a0a0200000080a0a82a8aa2a82a8aa2a82a0a0280a0a82a8aa2a82a0a028020882288a2a82a8aa2a82a8a228822080200000080a0a82a8a228822882288a2a82a0a02000000802088a2a82a0a02802088a2a82a8a2288220802802088a2a82a8a22882208020000008020882288a2a82a0a02802088a2a82a8a220802000000802088a2a82a8a228822080280208822080280a0a82a8aa2a82a8a2208028020882288228822080280a0a82a0a02000000802088a2a82a0a02802088a2a82a8a2208028020080200000080a0a82a8a2288228822080280200802802088a2a82a8a228822080280a0a82a8aa2a82a8aa2a82a0a0280a0a82a8a22080280a0a82a8aa2a82a8a22080200000080a0a82a0a0280a0a82a8aa2a82a8aa2a82a0a020000008020882288a2a82a0a02802088228822080280a0a82a8a2288a2a82a8a2288a2a82a8aa2a82a0a0200000080a0a82a8a228822882288a2a82a0a020000008020882288a2a82a0a02000000802088a2a82a0a02802088a2a82a8a2208028020080200000080a0a82a8aa2a82a8aa2a82a0a0280a0a82a8a22080200000080a0a82a0a028020882288228822080280200802000000802088a2a82a8aa2a82a0a02802088a2a82a0a0280a0a82a8a2288a2a82a8aa2a82a0a0200000080a0a82a0a0280a0a82a8aa2a82a8aa2a82a0a0200000080a0a82a8a228822080280200802802088228822080280a0a82a0a02802088a2a82a8a2208028020882288a2a82a0a0280a0a82a8a2288a2a82a8a22080280a0a82a0a0280208822080280a0a82a8aa2a82a8aa2a82a0a0280a0a82a8a22080200000080a0a82a8a228822882288a2a82a0a020000008020882288a2a82a0a0200000080208822882288220802802088a2a82a0a0280208822882288a2a82a0a028020080200000080a0a82a8a22080200000080a0a82a8a2288a2a82a8a22080280208822882288220802802088a2a82a0a0280a0a82a8a22080280a0a82a8a2288a2a82a8a2208028020080200000080a0a82a0a0280a0a82a8aa2a82a8aa2a82a0a0200000080208822882208028020882288a2a82a0a02802088a2a82a8a22080280208822882288a2a82a0a0280208822080280208822882288a2a82a0a028020080200000080a0a82a8aa2a82a0a02802088a2a82a0a0280a0a82a8a2288a2a82a0a02802008020000008020882288a2a82a0a02802088a2a82a8a22080200000080a0a82a0a0280208822080280a0a82a8aa2a82a0a028020080200000080a0a82a8a228822882288a2a82a0a0200000080208822882288220802802088a2a82a0a0200000080208822882288220802802088a2a82a0a0200000080208822882288220802802088a2a82a0a0200000080208822882288220802802088a2a82a0a02000000802088a2a82a8a2288a2a82a8a220802000000000000000000000000802088