gabriel-milan/eAlfred

eAlfred stands for "Electronic Alfred", a butler for electronic devices on your home.

Hi! I'm e-Alfred, your electronic butler. You can add sensors and actuators to my Arduino and be sure that you'll be able to control them using my web interface.

Setup

Clone the repository

First you need to clone this repository:

git clone https://github.com/gabriel-milan/eAlfred.git

Install requirements

Then, go to the "server" folder and run

pip3 install -r requirements.txt

Run web server

If everything goes okay, you'll be able to run the server with

./run.sh

or

python3 routes.py

Message protocol

e-Alfred works with a very simple message exchange protocol, as follows:

First step: Server sends POST request with JSON body to Arduino

Message example:

{
	"request_type" : 0,
	"port_type" : 0,
	"port_number" : 7,
	"value" : 53
}

where

• request_type is the type of action Arduino will perform (0 for reading, 1 for writing and 2 for PWM writing);
• port_type is the type of the Arduino port chosen (0 for analog, 1 for digital);
• port_number is the number of the Arduino port chosen (depends on the board model);
• value is the value for writing data (useless if request_type = 0).

Second step: Server gets a JSON response from Arduino

Message example:

{
	"data" : 73,
}

where

• data is the data written from the port, when request_type = 0. In any other case, it just doesn't matter.

How Arduino shall interpret the message

request_type	port_type	port_number	value	Arduino commands
0	0	X	y	pinMode("A"+X, INPUT); analogRead("A"+X);
0	1	X	y	pinMode(X, INPUT); digitalRead(X);
1	0	X	y	pinMode("A"+X, OUTPUT); analogWrite("A"+X, y);
1	1	X	y	pinMode(X, OUTPUT); digitalWrite(X, value);
2	0	X	y	===== THIS WON'T HAPPEN =====
2	1	X	y	pinMode(X, OUTPUT); digitalWrite(X, value);