reelyActive Smart Spaces Revisited

[rlkoshak (Rich Koshak)]

@Jeffrey_Dungen

Probably the most exciting thing for home automation is our integration

with sensor beacons (temperature, humidity, acceleration) which you can

read more about in our Forward BLE sensor data to Initial State

tutorial.

This is really interesting. I’m going to have to play with that some.

@Jeffrey_Dungen

The master will automatically combine the

decoding events, and decide which Pi had the strongest RSSI. If you go

this route, the non-master Pis can simply run our reelay software which is

even simpler.

I thought that is how I set it up. So what you are saying is I don’t need to run the hlc on the non-master Pis? What would be different in the code to run this way. Currently my non-master node is using:

// Fire up the reelyActive hyperlocal context server
var server = require('hlc-server');
var app = new server();
 
// Listen on the BLE radio of the Pi 3
app.bind( { protocol: 'hci', path: 'null' } );

// Set up the barnacles REST forwarding service
app.addNotificationService( {
    service: "barnaclesrest",
    hostname: "192.168.1.101", // IP address of central instance
    port: 3001
});

While it is running an HLC server, as you can see it is only using the barnaclesrest notification service to send the events to my main server. I based the above off of the example posted by @reelyActive here

@Jeffrey_Dungen

Perhaps not exactly what you’d want as an experience in your home, but

might be the source of some additional inspiration.

Oh, you would be surprised what some of us get up to, especially around Halloween and Christmas.

Though in the openHAB world we usually have openHAB doing the controlling so we can control anything that can talk to openHAB, not just a few devices.

Thanks a bunch for the response!