Ein Pfadi-Web-Projekt. Mein Part war vorallem im Backend, ich habe für die Abteilung St. Georg Uzwil zum Relaunch ihrer neuen Seite ein WordPress Plugin gebaut für die Mitgliederverwaltung und E-Mail Versand mit Kalender etc. Dazu gibts vielleicht mal noch einen separaten Post. Das könnte was Opensourciges werden…
Und grad nochmals Live! Meine Freunde von Voculation machen sensationelle Acapella-Wohnzimmerkonzerte und sind mit einem frischen Auftritt online. Design von Fabian
And we are live! Grad noch vor meiner Abreise geschafft. Projektidee von Gallus, Thomas und Karin. Ich freu mich dann auf mein erstes Experiment wenn ich wieder zurück bin. Viel Erfolg erstmal!
This was in my mind since years, and because home-automation is everywhere. I’ve had many ressources to stumble upon. I startet with an infrared to ethernet device to remote controle my stereo and tv with my phone. My most recent project was to remotely open the entrance door to our flat, with great success.
An arduino microcontroller hooked up with an ethernet-shield and a self soldered ‘trigger-board’. The arduino and the ethernet-shield is no magic, you can find example code here and here. I simply run a dead-simple non-secure web server on arduino listening for 3 arguments, for each relais on my trigger-board one. One of the relais is connected to my door-buzzer. The arduino is on my local network reachable only via cable. My home server is hooked up to the arduino ethernet interface and on this server I host a publicly available, mobile optimized, secure and beautifully designed, web application – written in plain PHP using RedBeanPHP.
You can log in and open the door, wherever you are. One can now use the ‘add to homescreen’ feature on iOS and have a pseudo native door opener.
Since I wanted to play around a little, I created a unique, one-time-usage-link-generator. So I can invite friends over, send them my link and they can open the door exactly once.
// Generating a random string to create a unique URL and allow entrance once
function generateRandomString($length = 20) {
$characters = '0123456789abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz';
$randomString = '';
for ($i = 0; $i < $length; $i++) {
$randomString .= $characters[rand(0, strlen($characters) - 1)];
}
return $randomString;
}
Since I live in an old house, the doorbuzzer is not very reliable. So when I trigger the buzzer, my server-arduino-trigger system works like a charm, butte the door doesn’t open always at the first try.
A very useful tool on Linux/Unix systems is ‘screen’. It’s a window manager 😉 read the man pages. I use it to do stuff on my server and being able to disconnect the ssh session while the tasks continue on the server, when I log in later, the tasks are still being executed (unless they are done).
[bash] Now, you can do heavy stuff and detach the screen with “ctrl-a-d”. This will release the window but still run the commands. You can log out or do other stuff now and whenever you want reattach the previous screen with [bash] screen -r [/bash]
ssh flo@example.com
screen -t mytitle
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