Illumative controller

A basic nodejs controller for Illumative with web interface.

Installation

Hardware

• in OSX navigate to system preferences
• click network
• select the ethernet port that is connected to the blue enttec controller
• select "Manually" from the "Configure IPv4" dropdown
• set IP Address to: 10.0.0.1
• set Subnet Mask to: 255.0.0.0

Software

Clone this repository by:

• pressing the Clone or download button > Download ZIP on this page.
• pull this repository using git in terminal on your local machine: git clone https://github.com/peerbolte/illumative.git

Make sure npm / node is installed: https://nodejs.org/en/download/

• use terminal to navigate to the (cloned) illumative folder: cd illumative
• run npm install to install dependencies
• run npm start or node index to run the illumative server
• all lights will flash white twice if all goes well

If the lights do not flash, there is no connection to the illumative system. The output in your terminal will display multiple IP Addresses. Copy the IP Address that represents the Enttec box and paste it into illumative.controller.connect('the.ip.address.here') in index.js Run npm start or node index to try again.

##Controlling the lights

After the installation you can start programming directly in node index.js or use the webinterface which is running at http://localhost:3000 by default. You can try to controll the lights by visiting these urls:

• http://localhost:3000/api/setAllWhite will turn all lights white
• http://localhost:3000/api/setAllBlack will turn all lights black
• http://localhost:3000/api/setlight?light=10&r=255&g=128&b=0&w=0 will turn the 11th light orange

You can also programatically control the lights in javascript in the front-end. The files in /public will be served at http://localhost:3000 by default. After loading illumative.js in the front-end var illumative = illumativeController() can be used to create a front-end illumative controller. Accepted methods:

• illumative.setAllWhite()
• illumative.setAllBlack()
• illumative.setLight(num, r, g, b, w)

The LEDs can be given a colour by mixing RED, GREEN, BLUE and WHITE (rgbw). Each colourchannel accepts a value between 0 and 255.

A simple demonstration can be found in public/index.html which can be visited at http://localhost:3000