SmartHome web application which is actually quite dumb

Development

Setup Commands

meteor npm i - to install dependencies
npm run lint - to lint application
npm run lint -- --fix - to lint and fix all the fixable issues
npm run storybook - to build and serve Storybook
npm run build - to build a static bundle
SUPERUSER_NAME="..." SUPERUSER_EMAIL="..." SUPERUSER_PASSWORD="..." RECORDER_FOLDER="..." RECORDER=DIR_SIZE_THRESHOLD="..." meteor - to start dev environment
meteor run --production - to start dev environment in production like mode
meteor mongo - to start a minimongo shell
meteor shell - to start a meteor shell
npm run - to see a list of other commands

OS

I am going to use Raspberry PI v3 as home server for that so, there is an instuction how to run Ubuntu server on this kind of hardware.

Build meteor application

To run meteor application at your appliance you have to build it. To get an instruction follow the link

NodeJS

Meteor application depends on NodeJS engine version 12. For installation execute:

curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_12.x | sudo -E bash -
sudo apt-get install -y nodejs

Mongo Database

Meteor application needs a database which is running on MongoDB. So, to have it installed and running follow the instruction.

Install application dependencies

First you'll need to unpack your bundle:

tar -xzvf dumb-home.tar.gz

As result you got a directory called ./bundle

To install all dependencies web application needs you have to run as usual npm install from ./bundle/programs/server directory. But some of dependecies will build from source code and for that purpose you'll have to install packages below:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y \
  gcc \
  g++ \
  make

When it's done, just call:

(cd bundle/programs/server && npm install)

NodeJS Process Manager (PM2)

PM2 Runtime is a Production Process Manager for Node.js applications with a built-in Load Balancer. It allows you to keep applications alive forever, to reload them without downtime and facilitate common Devops tasks.

To install and run follow this.

FFMPEG

If you are going to watch video streams from IP cam you will need to have ffmpeg package installed

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y ffmpeg

No configuration needed

Nginx to forward web requests from specific port to standart one

You'll need a proxy server to forward requests from the standard web port to specific one. So, I recommend to install NGINX follow the instruction.

Samba to share files on your server (optional)

Read the doc

Firewall

When you have haproxy configured, you need to disable ports except of standarts by using ufw tool.

sudo ufw enable

Add some firewall rules to allow ssh & http connections

sudo ufw allow ssh
sudo ufw allow http

Also you need to add firewall rule below to allow onvif discovery process (finding of ip cameras on the local network).

sudo ufw allow proto udp from 192.168.0.0/16

If you have a samba server is running you’ll need to allow incoming UDP connections on ports 137 and 138 and TCP connections on ports 139 and 445. You can open the ports by enabling the ‘Samba’ profile:

sudo ufw allow 'Samba'

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