alignan / geeny-office-annoyatron

Hackathon Dec 2017 idea: annoy your coworkers

Geeny's Hackathon

This is the log of our hacking adventures at Geeny's. TL;DR: we made an application which actually works

The solution we developed (rather a set of problems we came up with) is called the Geeny's office annoyatron, a.k.a. How to make friends in the office.

The annoyatron consists of two incredible helpful features:

• A friendly reminder over the team's slack channel every time a window is opened and closed, lovely isn't?
• Turn a light ON everytime someone is assigned to a new issue, fun! never miss out a Project Manager's ticket!

The implementation

The implementation is a joint effort from Geeny and IFTTT to bring happiness over Slack and Github.

A Formula has been deployed to Geeny's Docker registry, based on the Geeny's Hackathon 2018 repository, with minor modifications:

• Added a last-msg endpoint to retrieve the last message only (instead of the whole history at the /msgs endpoint)
• Publish to IFTTT's Webhook trigger (see: https://ifttt.com/maker_webhooks)

Overall this is what our architecture looks like:

The Formula runs in a Docker Machine deployed at Geeny. The following MessageTypes are associated to the Formula:

And the Formula is deployed as:

docker build -t "registry.geeny.io/21b11b72-f1d8-44de-9972-caa248f6dcd1" -f Dockerfile .
docker push "registry.geeny.io/21b11b72-f1d8-44de-9972-caa248f6dcd1"

The following endpoints are exposed:

• /send-message: used to send commands to subscribed devices
• /last-msg: as explained before, shows the last message received

The Develco devices were associated to the local Gateway, its status is shown at the device's IP:80 webserver:

At the IP:8000 webserver the Gateway can be registered to Geeny:

And now the devices are reachable over Geeny... here are our things:

{
    "meta": {
        "offset": 0,
        "limit": 50
    },
    "data": [
        {
            "id": "e705edaa-329a-42b7-96a9-64359d8859db",
            "name": "Window Sensor",
            "serial_number": "0015bc001e00322d",
            "thing_type": "d6e479ea-c4fc-4204-9534-fc310a54ecd2",
            "created": "2017-12-15T09:07:27.902Z"
        },
        {
            "id": "953fc4fa-1a64-4cd8-ba9d-b43a3e095360",
            "name": "Power Outlet",
            "serial_number": "0015bc002f00208d",
            "thing_type": "d5d51e47-34d0-418d-afe5-404b73c512b5",
            "created": "2017-12-15T09:09:25.826Z"
        },
        {
            "id": "8e227358-e309-4213-99de-89e3e4f2f3f8",
            "name": "Motion Sensor",
            "serial_number": "0015bc001a0069a1",
            "thing_type": "db5c4e3e-4dab-4526-bd90-392971369b83",
            "created": "2017-12-15T09:12:13.940Z"
        },
        {
            "id": "2c662faa-7a69-4d94-ae81-b6ff9f2dd664",
            "name": "Bulb",
            "serial_number": "00158d000150c256",
            "thing_type": "2db4d5b5-44d1-4f03-9aff-564a2785e8ff",
            "created": "2017-12-15T09:13:01.866Z"
        }
    ]
}

The window friend

Whenever the Develco's window sensor detects a window/door has been opened or closed, our Formula will publish

The Issue companion

Whenever there is a new issue assigned by our lovely Project Managers, the light will go ON, quite handy to work those extra overtime hours at night!

And when it is closed, you can rest assured as the light will go OFF, it is time to go home and enjoy a good few hours of sleep.

Whenever there is a new issue, the following GET request will be triggered from IFTTT to Geeny:

http://21b11b72-f1d8-44de-9972-caa248f6dcd1-v-14.formula.geeny.io/send-message?thing=bulb&cmd=cmd_on

And to turn the light OFF (when an issue is resolved):

http://21b11b72-f1d8-44de-9972-caa248f6dcd1-v-14.formula.geeny.io/send-message?thing=bulb&cmd=cmd_on