Introduction

I’m writing a command line tool called dsbox-lightgpio to wrap GPIO and web services. Command can be entered as arguments or interactively.

for example

          dsbox-lightgpio “hue get all”

or

          dsbox-lightgpio

          > all enable debug
          > hue get all
          > exit

I have finished coding handlers…

To get the status of all lights excerpt the office

          hue get all -office

To set all lights on to white except turn the bedroom off and leave the office as is

          hue set all=white bedroom=off -office

To brighten the lounge only if it is on already

          hue set lounge?on=+5

To detect motion ( prints when there is motion detected, and when no motion has been detected for 60 seconds )

          motion enable detection 

To request a heartbeat timer event every 5 minutes ( 300 seconds )

        timer heartbeat  myevent=300

To cancel a timer

        timer cancel myevent

To scroll a text message (once) on the 8×8 led matrix ( including a named icon )

        matrix marque Hello world this is a test 

To display a eye that winks ( and leave it on the display}

        matrix animate “{eyeopen}{eyeoclosed}{eyeopen}”

I’m still coding handlers for …

To blink (once) the lights blue as a notification indicator and then return them tot heir previous state

          hue blink all=blue

To gradually brighten a room to full red on a work day over a 30 minute interval (1800 seconds)

          hue fade up 1800 bedroom=red 

To gradually fade off the office ( if it is turned on ) over a 30 minute interval (1800 seconds)

          hue fade down 1800 office?on 

To detect taps and gestures on a touch device

          touch enable detection