I got my hands on a couple of wemo lights. However their smart phone application is horrendously bad, slow, and error prone. If that's not bad enough, there is no proper API for their devices. After looking into several alternatives (most of them not working at all) for controlling these lights, I stumbled upon wemo client for node. Which detects all devices in my home network (even grouped lightbulbs). So, I started to build a little web application to control these devices.
- node js (server back end)
- node express (routing and request/response handling)
- wemo client for node (interface to manage wemo)
- immutable-js
- promise
- body-parser
- .. some react, babel, bootstrap and font-awesome for the front-end
// Install dependencies
$ npm install express wemo-client immutable
// Run
$ node server.js
This starts the server and exposes the web application on http://localhost:3000
Check the plugins folder for available plugins. This web app currently only supports wemo lights. It should be easy to extend this web app with other systems (phillips hue for instance) as long as there is a node plugin for that system. A primitive plugin only needs to detect devices and update their state. Se below for a small example:
/** client setup code goes here */
..
var devices = [];
/** Init gets triggered by bridge.js, discovers devices and creates device bridge objects */
exports.init = function() {
/**
* Sets up devices, look at wemo-plugin.js for an example.
* If a light is to be enabled/disabled, a setEnabled function needs to be defined
*/
};
/** Returns all configured devices */
exports.getDevices = function() {
return devices;
}
- Flexible way to control rules
- Extract frontend-stuff into a distable dependency
- Periodically controllable modes, for instance turn all lights on at 0700am